Midnight moves. Thats what comes to mind when you listen to Cale Parks s N1, preferably at an hour long after dusk has settled around you in some beautiful, insomniac city. Parks finds – or more aptly, seeks – beauty and grace in ambience and shadows. N1 starts as pure atmosphere – it feels at first like a sort of lovely sonic nothingness slowly taking form – before growing into the darkly lit, gorgeous moodscape it later becomes. A sensual bassline, a pulsing downbeat, a cinematic piano, strains of Italo disco, and the sensation of breezing down a lightless road. If you could make sensuous shapes of the night – imagine kneading the dark itself – it might, at the very best, feel like this. The task of remixing Parks s original is taken up by French duo Paradis, who can otherwise be heard making music on Tim Sweeney s Beats in Space label. The Paris-based producers shine a brightening light on Parks s dusky creation, quickening its pulse and trading in its darkwave undercurrents for enlivening techno and house. Theres an element of floating here – a dreaminess in the rhythms, an astral aspect to the keys beaming through the beats. And with the addition of vocals, sung in French – a pop finishing touch on a song that already feels like an earworm – the transformation is complete. This excellent introduction to Cale Parkss music is also his debut release on the HAKT label.