In her 2013 Ted Talk, marine mammalogist Denise Herzing describes how dolphins can tightly pack echolocation clicks to physically arouse the senses of other dolphins socially (the sensation is ambitiously translated into English to be written as ‘ ~*~’). Sound, she tells me, “can actually be felt in the water because the acoustic impedance of tissue and water is about the same, so dolphins can buzz and tickle each other at a distance.” If that sounds a bit cooked to you, that’s because it is. Thankfully, it will prepare you well for the contents of our premiere.
Finding Figaro · The Dolphin Communion (Iñigo Vontier 'Mushroom House' Remix)(Finding Figaro Premiere)
To my knowledge, not since Lauer’s ‘Phlipper’ have dolphins taken centre stage in the stimulated world of dance music. Why not? I wonder. It is invariably spellbinding. How many of us fondly recall wondering, foolishly, with our blood pulsing feverishly and ecstatically, if we had transcended and gained access to a new, higher dimension when at the inaugural Pitch, Gerd Janson, Lauer’s faithful label co-conspirator teased Phlipper to our ears for the first time. Dreems’ (Multi Culti) Shark EP, thankfully, opens a new dialogue with the aquatic realm in a corker of an EP which makes itself at home in the dancefloor oddballs record bag.
Inigo Vontier’s Mushroom House Remix of The Dolphin Communion lays out a clue front and centre. Mushroom House turns up the dial of sonic cookery a little higher. Interjecting warbling synths and interspersed dolphin conversations work in concert with a sundry assortment of percussion which vividly pulls you 20 000 leagues under to what I imagine, to be an oceanic rave with Captain Nemo on the controls. Meanwhile, a marine biologist tells us how scientific investigations have revealed, unsurprisingly, human beings are unable to to discriminate the frequencies of bottlenose dolphin vibrations. Rising synths rise from the depths in the latter half before the song rounds itself out with an array of dolphin clicks, tickling you from a distance.