Crystal Ark’s new 12’’, The Tangible Presence of the Miraculous, slid under the radar of 20jazzfunkgreats’ command and control room on August like an acid washed stealth bomber designed by Ibizan iluminados, on a terminal mission to destroy dancefloors from which, alas, we were absent this summer.

We are posting it today as a wake up call for all the DJs out there who haven’t yet grabbed a copy to do so, because every single unit sitting unwrapped in Juno’s magical vaults is an affront to the Goddess, and a step backwards in our ongoing transition towards hedonistic enlightenment.

In it we witness the next phase of Gavin Russom’s crusade against the tyranny of faceless, forgettable and tepid dance music. Having mapped a psychogeography of the darkest spots of the city that never sleeps in Crystal Ark’s previous 12, in the Tangible Presence of the Miraculous he speeds things up into a tribal vortex that we transverse in a relentless drug simulator, bombarded by kinaesthetic flashbacks of David Bowman’s trip beyond the infinite and Eddie Jessup’s genetic regression across percussive aeons, hypnotised by the animistic admonitions of trance Shaman Viva Ruiz, who you can literally hear levitating above the psychedelic fray which is this song.

Crystal Ark- The Tangible Presence of the Miraculous

If the Wachowsky Brothers had got everyone’s favourite scene at the Matrix Reloaded right, it would have sounded like this, and it would have made everyone watching it transcend into a new state of consciousness like a positive version of Halloween’s Season of the Witch druid holocaust broadcast.

Now that was a missed opportunity.

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Anyone who has gone to Berlin to find themselves this week could do a lot worse than finding themselves at this event, happening this very evening – Death Sentence: Panda!, Bronze, and War vs Sleep up in and visual hosting by the wondrous Andromeda kolletiv – it’s a 4 x win situation.