Steve Rachmad, the veteran Dutch producer known for aliases including Sterac and Parallel 9, has released 'Light And Time' via the Dekmantel label, a record that moves decisively away from club-focused techno towards orchestral and ambient composition. After roughly 45 years shaping Dutch and Detroit-influenced electronic music, the album finds him treating rhythm as a background presence rather than a driving force, favouring sweeping strings, fragile harmonics and textured atmosphere instead.

Tracks such as 'Reality Programmers' and 'Silent Revolution' foreground meditative synth and orchestral swells over percussion, while 'The Field Of Reality' is singled out as an emotional peak built entirely from mournful orchestral arrangement. Other pieces, including 'Invisible Warriors Of Light' and 'Wok And Pumpkin', touch on Rachmad's electro-funk roots and blur boundaries between club music and gallery-style composition. The review praises the record's restraint, describing it as confident, unforced music that rewards patient listening over immediate impact.