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Launching off the Terra Atomika imprint, a new label helmed by Alberta Balsam, Cosmic Runner is the single from her forthcoming album, scheduled to land in September 2024.

Enter a world where celestial vistas and interior emotionality collide. On Cosmic Runner, Alberta Balsam traverses an intergalactic, deeply danceable sonic realm. Her lucid voice guides the titular track; a dance-pop song narrating a lost love affair driven by a heart-punching beat. Two re-mixes follow: while French II blasts into the stratosphere of pumping techno, the echoing vocals and flexed pads climaxing into airy builds, Peder Mannerfelt goes to weirder, darker, more alien places. The melodies are spaced-out and mutant on his re-imagining, taking the B-side into shadowy terrain. In the second half, ‘Wrenching Your Mind’ is structured around fluttering breakdowns and wormhole passages. 
 
Deeply embedded in the Rotterdam club scene, Alberta Balsam has crafted a distinctive, impressively technical and imaginatively rich style. With releases on eminent labels such as Dekmantel and Clone, she draws on the space-age signifiers of early electronica, the techy, trippy vibes of 1990s IDM, and her love of science-fiction. 

Accompanying Cosmic Runner will be a mesmerizing music video by Dutch artist Timaeus (Tim Van Hooft). It's a psychedelic vision of human bodies and floating asteroids, connecting all matter in the universe to stardust and supernovas.

Cosmic Runner

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One Way Trip to Gaia, Alberta Balsam's debut album, propels listeners into uncharted territory, delivering a futuristic fairytale--a utopian world that serves as a sonic refuge from reality. Building on the electro-IDM foundations of her earlier releases , this record evolves into an odyssey of bass-driven beats, breakbeat rhythms, and dub-infused atmospheres. As her most vocal project to date, the album showcases her ability to merge pop sensibility with otherworldly sound design, all while maintaining that club-ready energy.

Limited edition: pressed on a black and silver marbled vinyl. Sleeve design by Timaeus

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