Slovenian artist Vid Papež likes to keep things small: he has been steadily releasing EPs for over ten years now. Always to the applause of various blogs and music magazines. Straddling the borders between the genres of house, techno, minimal, ambient and so on. Beats to concentrate to. The only question remains: is this statement flattering? Doesn’t it relegate the sound to a simple sound tapestry? And who still concentrates these days? Rather, everyone just sits around and amuses themselves. Instead of focusing on the small stuff anymore, Papež, in the guise of Vid Vai, is now releasing his debut album »Laminar Flow«. Fittingly, the track »Empty Your Mind« switches off your thoughts, yet requires your attention because everything stays synthetic. Vid Vai lets the different beats and bars flow through his sound – but nevertheless everything follows an order that cannot be understood. »Silver Linings« presses its rhythm into accessible spheres with a melody. Effects circle around it, while something shifts again inside the track. Vid Vai integrates these movements so precisely, so perfectly, that he harmonises the entire sound on »Laminar Flow« with them without making the album too uniform. They are not beats to concentrate to. They are beats to concentrate on. From a distance and from close up, you can find enough on »Laminar Flow« to keep you busy for days and weeks.
Laminar Flow
