'The Monad (Atlantis Mix)' opens the signal at 154 BPM in A minor, a psychedelic pulse that seems to promise a high-tempo record. It's a decoy: two tracks later, 'Soul Quest' has dropped to 105 and 'Sacred Flow' shoots back up to 158. Atlantis Broadcast neither descends nor climbs — it oscillates, like a transmission tuning in and out. And that is precisely the point. According to the label's note on Bandcamp, Takkra recorded the album at Studio Atlantis in Lanzarote and framed it as a series of transmissions that take his own material, old and new, apart and rebuild it, inspired by the legend of Atlantis. Hence ten of the eleven titles carrying the 'Atlantis Broadcast Rework' surname.
The middle stretch is where the journey settles. 'Jai Ho Bhagwan' drops to 97 BPM and opens up in D major for over six minutes; 'Ouroboros', the album's longest cut (6:50), spins at 130 in C major; and 'Ilyah' returns to the shadows in C minor. That 'Ilyah' is here matters: it titled an earlier Takkra album on the same label, and it resurfaces transformed — proof that these reworks are re-readings, not cosmetic touch-ups.
The home stretch groups 'As Above so Below', 'Ancient Tongues' and 'Vacuum of Shambala' into a 140-143 BPM plateau, all three in major keys: the brightest, most sustained block of the ride. Then the signal cuts: 'The Saint' closes at 84 BPM, the lowest tempo on the record, back in A minor — the very key 'The Monad' opened with. The circle closes where it began, and with a track called 'Ouroboros' sitting at the exact centre of the sequence, it's hard to believe that's an accident.
Heard in order, Atlantis Broadcast works less like a conventional chillout album and more like a broadcast from somewhere submerged: recognisable fragments that surface, distort and sink back into the static.
Sources: Sofa Beats · Bandcamp