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Artist: Oliver Koletzki
Release Title: The Arc of Tension
Label: Stil vor Talent
Catalogue No: SVT193
Release: 2017-05-19
On his sixth album, The Arc of Tension, the Berlin based DJ, label owner and producer OLIVER KOLETZKI yet again presents his remarkable vision of contemporary electronic music, while he assumes the role of a storyteller. The Arc of Tension speaks to its listener as a singular, self contained work, which communicates by way of its natural flow and arc of suspense. The latter is mirrored not only in the multifarious narrative of the actual album, but can also be understood as evidence for its creator’s long musical history.
While Koletzki focussed on a diverse range of vocal collaborations on his previous long players, he now moves on to a different form of storytelling, rooted in the quiet confidence of a veteran musician, as well as the hectic lifestyle of a globally in demand DJ. The Arc of Tension is the psychonautic journey through the various continents of Oliver’s consciousness. The quiet chirps and warbles, which initially unfold on the opener ‘A Tribe Called Kotori’, thus act as a loose associative bridge to ‘Der Mückenschwarm’, Oliver’s big breakthrough hit of 2005. The first minutes of the album leave no room for doubt – we are immediately locked into an autobiographical world of sound that knows how to captivate from the get go. The dreamy, exotic timbres of the downbeat tracks ‘By My Side’, Tankwa Town’ and ‘Byron Bay’ penetrate our minds in a subtle yet purposeful manner. But soon the tension tightens and organic sounds one by one evolve towards a sterner, electronic cadence. The bittersweet neon synths of ‘Spiritual Not Religious’ pave the way for the complex rhythm of ‘A Star Called Akasha’, an early highlight carried by melancholic cellos and contemplative piano chords. The ultimate turning point follows with ‘Through the Darkness’. Here, at the album’s centre, Koletzki starts continuously upping the tempo and leads the way with his very own, melodic interpretation of today’s techno Zeitgeist, which he has been shaping since 2015’s ‘Iyéwaye’.
‘Planetarium’, ‘They Can’t Hold Me Back’ and ‘Chaturanga’ exemplify, moreover, that a fusion of delicate musicality and sheer force leads to impressively ecstatic results. With its rough guitar chords and the acidic chitter of the TD303, ‘Power to the People’ rings in The Arc of Tension’s ending, until we fully take off into space, weightlessly propelled by the ambient drones of ‘The Day We Leave Earth’. Ultimately, what lingers is the feeling that we are being granted a deep glance into the innermost being of an outstanding artist.
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Camilla my Daughter
2:59
acid trip
hep hap atiyolar bi da dinlemicem
my boyfriend bangs my brains out while listening to this , one of my favs
De git lo
deep feeling..
Does anyone know who is the man in the dialogue?
Işık hızı gibi bir şarkı
Amé mal esta canción 😍
Love the song but you got to be very simple to believe that the only cause of people unhappiness is inequality.
Wtcn dan gelenler
Dangerous
Just listen and skip. This is not a holy song. Making you curious about universe is acceptable but do not exaggarate it. No one cares guys.
I came from 2022 and this song is amazing 😮
like this as it resonates with me
Lyric
https://youtu.be/BhCEabtf3pU
This is not the song for despair. It is putting the fact for you to think and eventually grasp the meaning, to rise and shine. and the sound is top notch, fell in love since I first heard, still under affection 🙂
Rip Jim jones.
bu şarkı bile zehir oldu
The irony is that the sample from this song is a quote from Jim Jones, who conned over 900 people into joining his religion and then killing themselves.
What happened to the Intro part lol
The first time I heard this I knew it was Jim's voice.
艺术，对现实世界的怀疑！学会质疑，去TM的权威🤣
I find this having a lot of relation to "imagine" from John Lennon, same thoughts, no religion is needed if we share all the world, no hell no heaven just peace and spirituality
doesn’t it feel like rick and morty theme song
çok iyi
Is this song copyright free?
Western discourses of "spirituality" appropriate indigenous spiritual traditions and "ethnic" traditions of the East, yet racialized ethnic groups are more likely to be labeled "religious" than "spiritual" by white SBNR practitioners. through these processes, colonial othering is enacted through SBNR discourse.
Amazing
Lit
Such an amazing tune, always let's something awake in me ❤️ Only that weird quote stops me from listening to it more often.. I agree with the core value of social and material equality and wellbeing for all, but the supposition that we were simply all happy and without any form of collective religious practice (which is also a form of/channel for spiritual impulses), just if there weren't such devastating inequalities, is just naively wishful and undercomplex bullshit with way too cringy pathos 😖 Sorry, had to vent that as I otherwise love this song😅
Anyone 2025 ? ❤
Evocative memories
This track is incredible — the beat, the setup, the whole composition is just top-notch. I do not agree with the idea about religion though. I get the idea — people often turn to religion in hard times — but I think it’s a bit of a shallow interpretation. Sure, suffering can lead people to seek meaning, but the human search for the divine goes much deeper than just economic inequality. Even in a world without poverty, we’d still ask the big questions: Why are we here? What happens after death? That longing for something beyond is part of being human, not just a reaction to hardship.
bu şarkı = zima blue
Should be a game soundtrack.. like road 96
This is really cool when you're coming down from a mushroom-trip 😍