Radikon head Jonas Saalbach returns to the label’s spotlight with a 6 track mini album which represents nothing less than his own state of the art production peak while establishing an intimate attempt at songwriting offering a unique insight to the artist’s mindset.
Jonas’ introvert outrospective feels like taking a deep breath and pressing the pause button to take back just a brief moment in time to take a look around and reflect on the state of the Zeitgeist and it’s given implications on our daily lives. ‚Acceleration‘ makes no pretence to give a abstract philosophical reflection from a zoomed out perspective on contemporary societal circumstances, this a pure and highly personal perception directly from the artist’s POV.
Saalbach reviews his own strategies to cope with an ever growing pressure to keep moving at any given moment to match up with the technological revolutions happening around all of us at an ever accelerating pace. Luckily the producer found his zone of zen inside the walls of his studio and delivers yet another forward thinking production on the edge of tomorrow. The spectrum covered within the 6 pieces ranges between dancefloor hymns with driving drum sections to catchy vocal hooklines with pop ascendents.
Thematically every songs stands for another individual observation of the times at hand. If it’s the definition of what it means to be human in an era of rising robotic minds, the widely spread distress of keeping up without knowing if there’s a finish line to cross behind the horizon or the supposedly basic question of where to live the good life, Jonas does not pretend to have an answer. But he invites you to take the journey through these foggy passages together.
These are questions everyone of us has buried in the back of our heads and this is why it’s even more important to openly share the feeling of uncertainty to feel less alone in the age of ‚Acceleration‘.
8 май 2024
