British journalist John Peters ("Borderland")

"Midway" is a new album from "Electroshock" fusing the labels' trademark cutting edge electronic sounds with more conventional instruments. In this case it is guitars (acoustic and electric) and it shows in the way the music has a much more approachable feel and openness to it - indeed, the third track "Hot Wind" is positively jazzy and soul-stirring. In fact this sense of "swing" permeats the album throughout, making it one of the most melodic albums I've heard in a long time. Mixing traditional instruments and synthesisers has always been a difficult task for musicians - they aren't natural bedfellows after all - but on this album Valery Siver and Kiryll Trepakov seem to have cracked it. The synths and samplers create the bedrock of percussion and melodic background and the guitars subtly weave their magic throughout. Track seven, "Don", is a fine example of this magic, a limpidly funky backbeat is layered with soft synth drones while the guitars dance slowly with a synth lead, not exactly Ravel's "Bolero" but very exotic. The more I hear of "Midway" the more I like it, it is an album that deserves to be heard by as wide an audience as possible. It is quite simply a magical album. I do hope it won't be too long before Valery Siver and Kiryll Trepakov release another album.

John Peters ("Borderland")