{"id":1253,"date":"2014-12-03T20:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2014-12-03T20:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:29:17","slug":"le-dos-on-voice-of-the-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Le Dos-on &#8211; Voice of the Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/a0405304358_10_zpsc3f6138e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Le Dos-on&#8217;s <em>Voice of the Wolves <\/em>is the biggest Splash Energy Recordings release for quite a while, appearing on CD and digitally a month or so ago. Fans of Le Dos-on&#8217;s recent sound will find lots to enjoy here, but there are enough elements of his older, FINRG-influenced style to widen the album&#8217;s appeal beyond that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anastasia <\/strong>is good example, with a sound somewhere between UK and Finland, and would likely mix well into either style. Quite an uplifting track then, followed by the Substanced\/Transcend-esque <strong>Chaotic Infection<\/strong>. Again, not an especially dark tune, but more than matches most of the harder stuff we&#8217;ve heard so far this year, with some excellent work on the filters. The title track, <strong>Voice of the Wolves<\/strong>, harks back to Le Dos-on&#8217;s older tracks, with the classic &#8216;catchy melody over some twistiness&#8217; and a very short break keeping the pace high. One of my favourites on the album, this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Umbla <\/strong>drops the bpm for a Aryx\/Paocala-style trancy tune that starts really well but fades away a little, just as you&#8217;re expecting the next level to kick in. I&#8217;d be interested to hear a remix\/rework though, there&#8217;s lots of potential. <strong>Tsukumogami <\/strong>has more than a hint of Hybridize to it, what with the piano and simple-but-catchy melody. We&#8217;re back to freeform speed here, and plenty of melodic-mix potential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Are Here, We Are Waiting <\/strong>sets off into UK freeform territory after a deceptively promising intro. There&#8217;s even an electro section for those who like that sort of thing. This leads into a bona fide trance track at 145bpm, <strong>Signals Intelligence<\/strong>, featuring some really nice elements that lead into a lovely breakdown. The melody again seems just short of the complexity you&#8217;d expect, but it&#8217;s a nice change of pace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unnamed <\/strong>is by far my favourite track on the album, and manages to channel some of the emotion you often hear in Le Dos-on&#8217;s best tracks. There&#8217;s a Nomic-esque feel to the intro, before some echoes of Betwixt &amp; Between with the pianos in the breakdown. As the drop arrived I was praying for some demented filtering, but sadly it wasn&#8217;t to be &#8211; still, this is a quality tune and lifts the album into must-listen territory.<\/p>\n<p>Overall <em>Voice of the Wolves <\/em>is really worth checking out. Personally I feel the addition of a Psycho Stalker track and some more of the melancholy that Le Dos-on does so well would have improved the album no end, but after so many releases on various labels that might have been a tough ask. The CD is still available, but all the tracks are also online at <a href=\"http:\/\/ledos-on.bandcamp.com\/album\/voice-of-the-wolves\">Le Dos-on&#8217;s bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Dos-on&#8217;s Voice of the Wolves is the biggest Splash Energy Recordings release for quite a while, appearing on CD and digitally a month or so ago. Fans of Le Dos-on&#8217;s recent sound will find lots to enjoy here, but there are enough elements of his older, FINRG-influenced style to widen the album&#8217;s appeal beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}