The world is filled with incredible places. Should you ever have the chance to visit Krakow, take the time to explore the Wieliczka salt mines. A maze of tunnels, grand rooms, polished surfaces and pillars, these retired caverns offer a glimpse of the past. Deep underground, the sounds are muted and the air is strangely thick and fetid. What you experience is the result of hard work. Not the sweat of miners, not the toil of machinery, but the after. Orbit Culture’s new record, ‘Death Above Life’, evokes these deep cavernous spaces. It’s oppressive; a container for darkness that feels like a modern work indebted to the past. But the reason it brings to mind those mines is that, while standing in those silent caverns, if you close your eyes, you imagine you can hear the machinery.
The experience of pressing play on ‘Death Above Life’ is unforgettable. Maybe you’ve buried yourself under tonnes of metal records, maybe you haven’t, but the first thing that hits you is the sound…
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