"The sunny season is about to start, new releases are swirling and new music to listen to just piles up on my desk, yet, amongst the bulky stockpile of unlisted things there’s an album that caught my attention right away: Yulio’s fourth LP to date called ‘Venus’, recently released on the Catalan imprint Diffuse Reality as the 48th issue on their catalogues. The ten tracks which compose the record just naturally flow from the beginning to the end in an effortless, classy yet eerie, mysterious stream. As I plunged into the Chilean producer’s sounds, I found it quite natural to empathise with him, as Venus sounds like the typical work composed by a musician who finally reached his sonic maturity and perfectly knows how to express his musical feelings, dragging them into an album. Personally I’ve always been fascinated by the people who make it look easy even if their thing is quite complex and Yulio created such a cohesive and solid LP, where all the details come together acting as a supporting cast to strengthen up the sense of the whole thing, making it sound more like a long concert with its movements rather than just a bunch of cool tracks. This is the best compliment I could make about someone else’s work as I love albums that strike instantly but need to be listened many times to fbe fully understood. One of Yulio’s trademarks -which he comes up with throughout the whole LP- are the open, spacey, intertwining atmospheres which give birth to new sonic ecosystems, like tiny little living matters feeling comfortable into their very own environs. This delicate, elegant yet stable, substantial fashion of managing his sounds make this album either easy to listen as well as full of brain-shaking inputs. Every peace that composes the system -from the meeker, smoother, shorter tracks to the frantic, longer and darker rhythms- moves tightly together towards the end of a tunnel full of sonic emotions. When I hear such kind of albums I find it quite hard to get into technicalities, being em so mature, personal, and heartfelt but also being them a true transposition of an intimate message; all this makes the judging/rating totally useless. What I can undoubtedly say is that when I hear new music my yardstick is very strict: would I buy this record or not? Well, in this case the answer is a 100% yes. Shouts to Yulio and his Venus and big ups to Diffuse Reality for making this possible. I love it."