Overview: Continuing on from a series of successful EPs on Token including last year’s Ostinato, Antigone returns to the label with Rising, his first experiment with the LP format. Rising is an album that exerts itself to stimulate the mind and the body simultaneously. As such, it’s a record that gives the dramatic illusion of having a physical pulse.

The artist, real name Antonin Jeanson, already has a substantial body of work behind him. Considering his previous releases on Token, Indigo Aera, Construct Re-Form ,Concrete Music and Dement3d and his experience as a resident at Concrete in Paris, the level of artistic maturity he possesses while still being under 30 is highly impressive yet unsurprising at the same time.

For Rising, Antigone manages to oscillate between great ambient introspections carried by spacey synths and deconstructed rhythms, and elegant techno epics that are suitable for listening pleasure as much as for the pure abandonment of reality.

The title track’s delicate arpeggios meld into strings with stirring cadences, delivering above and beyond the standard intro, as it breaks and continues for a second round with added depth. Sands of Time stands out with tiny, breathy samples, pitch bent into something ever different from the last. Lost and Found’s granulated percussion sits adjacent to a cinematic sea of strings, while Out There provides a tasteful fragment of the sci-fi reverence many listeners demand of a techno album. Duality of Mind hints once again at the measured moods of Cantor Dust, his Token debut EP. It Follows alludes to supernatural horror with call-and-response variants on an almost microtonal theme. Infinite Limit’s tension from the offset brings a UK-influenced sound to the record, which continues with the IDM-feeling Dume and the equally glitchy and pulsing Love Field, while the in-between Irreversible is an immersive piece with a piercing high-end, guaranteed to induce a physical sensory response.

Artist. Antigone
Title. Rising
Label. TOKEN
Cat#. TOKEN88LP
Release date. 16.11.18
Format. 2 x Vinyl 12” / CD / Digital

LP Tracklist

Previous releases. 

2018 First Album (forthcoming) Remix for Carl Craig – Infiné Remix for Amandra – Obscura

2017 Token 10 Years Compilation – Token T.O.U. – Venatori (Antigone Remix) – Deutsche Grammophon Ostinato EP – Token

2016 Time Enough At Last EP – Token Antigone & François X – We Move As One EP – Dement3d Saudade EP – Token

2015 Cantor Dust EP – Token

2014 The Day The Sky Fell In EP – Indigo Aera As I Walk To You EP – Construct Re-Form

2013 Forbidden Galaxy EP – Ars Mechanica The Astral Traveller EP – Concrete Music The Deadly Games Of Gamma EP – Children of Tomorrow

2011 Forbidden Work EP – Construct Re-Form

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