Small Solar System Body - The God Particle (2025)

Futurism, galaxies and space travel. Small Solar System Body ticks all the usual techno boxes. But Dutch techno producer David Hulsken goes a few steps further on his album The God Particle, released on the Dutch label SoHaSo. “Space has always inspired me,” he says. “It is an infinite void filled with possibilities, questions and wonders.”
On his second long player (the follow-up to 2023’s Fragments of Lost Galaxies), the Dutchman indulges his fascination with the so-called Higgs particle. This elementary piece, also known as The God Particle, helps explain how other particles get their mass. After all, we would not exist without mass. “I find that deeply fascinating”, says Hulsken. “The discovery has the potential to completely rewrite our understanding of existence.”
In the eight hypnotic techno tracks on The God Particle, Small Solar System Body explores this duality. “The limitless potential of science and technology, but also the risks that come with it. Listeners should not worry about getting caught up in a scientific paper while consuming the album. First and foremost, The God Particle is a musical firework: straight-up techno with massive kicks, fascinating loops and flowing melodies, made for serious sound systems.
Thanks to the heavy dose of Detroit DNA that Hulsken injects into his energetic productions, tracks like Collider Physics, Particle Pulse and The Higgs Mechanism alternately recall a young Jeff Mills, Damon Wild and Robert Hood. Yes, it’s that good. But if you dig a little deeper into the subject matter (and the titles), you can also hear the tension and uncertainties that the discovery of the Higgs particle brings. “What might happen if we managed to harness the power of the God particle in our everyday lives?” wonders Hulsken. “How far can we go before everything goes wrong?