Evocative and poignant songwriting intertwined with the precision and escapism of finely-crafted trance – Blip Onskrine explores the weight of technology and the rat-race, with the enchanting dynamic and addictive depth of Overtime Ghosts.
Featuring a wholly consuming arrangement of classic trance tones and a beat that consistently embraces, Overtime Ghosts also features a conceptual twist of provocative realism, and the male and female voices add performative charm and contrast that’s both catchy and impossible to ignore.
Quickly engaging, satisfying and thoughtful, this is an earworm of an EDM track, but it’s also a brilliantly self-aware ode to the timeless appeal of techno and trance. Blip Onskrine (pronounced ‘on screen’) has worked in IT for over 25 years, and that commitment to both technology and the working world rings loudly throughout the unmistakable sentiments and vastly sweeping soundscape of Overtime Ghosts.
Hitting the techno and trance scene head on this year, Blip Onskrine also recently launched the ambient and haunting Chip Maze – a dreamy and delicate build, with poetic lines intriguing and mysterious, as we rise towards a high-octane, uplifting drop. The song utilises contrast incredibly well, providing an almost theatrical dynamic once again, between the two voices and indeed between the sections that are gentle and those that energize and awaken.
The tempo is relentless, the vibe euphoric, but the concept once more takes us into the darkness of technology, and it’s a fascinating celebration of a track, distinctly mainstream but also alternative enough to effectively blur those lines.
Blip Onskrine brings together precision and playfulness, and it works. His catalogue is expanding at pace, with heavy distortion and bass capturing existential vibes for Line Feed, and tribal industrial chants of EDM elevated in the boldly unique echoes of a compelling Project Zero.
Throughout April and May, the likes of Fountain and das Wunder will further the creative grip of the project, as Blip Onskrine continues to seamlessly intertwine passion and purpose as a new age producer.
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