Black-Body Radiation is the fist result of a long lasting musical developmental process, in which technoproducer Irradiation has carved out her definition of advanced electronic music based on the formulae of
techno.
Thematically, the music resulting from this process also presents an aesthetic comment on problems and notions of modern physics, as indicated by the titles. But the reference to physics also indicates what Irradiation’s music is all about: the abstraction, layering and symmetry-breaking of techno’s basic formulae. Nevertheless the transformation of the Future Sound of Detroit is not negotiated in a dry and unaffected way.
Irradiation remains faithful to techno’s fundamental aim of evoking grand emotions, although the release doesn’t aim at provoking hysteric euphoria.
The prevailing mood of her music is more a kind of hypnotic, tense and mysterious serenity. Finally, the remixes by Milton Bradley, Mes and Digilog are perfectly positioned in the musical framework delimited by Irradiation, complementing an confient and highly autonomous aesthetic statement.