After two weekends away, the backlog has become immense, so we present a whopping FOUR new episodes for the spooky season!
Episode 717 features Medicine, Fennesz, Papa M, Earthen Sea, Nero, memotone, Karate, ØKSE, Otis Gayle, more eaze, Jon Mueller, and Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa.
Episode 718 has The Legendary Pink Dots, Throbbing Gristle, Von Spar / Eiko Ishibashi / Joe Talia / Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Ladytron, Cate Brooks, Bill Callahan, Jill Fraser, Angelo Harmsworth, Laibach, and Mike Cooper.
Episode 719 music by Angel Bat Dawid, Philip Jeck, A.M. Blue, KMRU, Songs: Ohia, Craven Faults, tashi dorji, Black Rain, The Ghostwriters, Windy & Carl.
Episode 720 brings you tunes from Lewis Spybey, Jules Reidy, Mogwai, Surya Botofasina, Patrick Cowley, Anthony Moore, Innocence Mission, Matt Elliott, Rodan, and Sorrow.
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After an unusually lengthy period of relative silence, Natural Snow Buildings have returned with a significant departure from much of their previous work.  Well, a departure in some ways, at least–both the songs and the entire album are unexpectedly brief and concise.  Also, the most memorable pieces eschew the duo's usual drone and "haunted folk" tendencies in favor of something resembling a lysergic, nightmarish Ennio Morricone score or an imaginary soundtrack to a Jodorowsky film.  Otherwise, everything great about the duo thankfully remains, as comparative accessibility has done nothing to lessen Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte’s characteristic spell of haunting and timeless otherworldliness.  This is definitely one of the more essential Natural Snow Buildings albums.
Terror’s Horns opens in striking and beautiful fashion, as "Dawn on a Buckskin" evocatively combines a mournful and reverberating Spaghetti Western tremolo-bar strum with massing dissonant drones and a slow-motion pulse of bass drum thud and crashing cymbals.  To some degree, the piece calls to mind the Wild West, but Natural Snow Buildings' version is quite a bit more strange and disturbing than any familiar images from movies.  To me, it creates a tableaux that is not so much "gunfight" or "ghost town" as "wounded person stumbling through an empty, flickering, unfamiliar, and hallucinatory landscape."  As far as opening salvos go, Mehdi and Solange could not have done better.  The following "Saturna’s Black Belt" is both equally short and similarly stellar, again embellishing the hollow twang of the Western with dirge-like, quasi-ritualistic percussion and an ominous miasma of buzzing and swirling drones.  Even better is the strangely sickly guitar tone of the central motif.  In a mere six minutes or so, Mehdi and Solange managed to plunge me deeply into a twisted, disturbing, forlorn, and temporally dislocated world of their own making.
Lamentably, the album is not able to endlessly sustain such a relentless pace of brilliance and innovation for its entire duration, but Terror's Horns does offer up at least two other gems, albeit in somewhat different directions.  The 10-minute epic "The King in Yellow" is partially a return to NSB's comfort zone, as it is quite long, prominently features Mehdi's floating and ghostly vocals, and gradually morphs into a fine drone piece.  There is a wonderful twist though, as Mehdi's vocals occur over a beautifully thorny and broken-sounding thicket of buzzing, stuttering, and stumbling strings.  Later, Mehdi and Solange unveil yet another triumph at the end of the album with "Orion is Dead," elevating their standard dirge-like balladry with eerie vocal harmonies and an explosive crescendo of smoldering distortion, trance-like percussion, and a blearily melodic quasi-orchestral fantasia.
The remaining four songs are generally quite good as well, but they will mostly sound quite familiar to anyone who already has a few Natural Snow Buildings albums.  "Twilight Bells, Terror's Horns," for example, is a bit of shimmering, twinkling, and undulating ambiance, embellished only by interruptions of deep, hollow moans resembling the shifting of a giant, empty ship’s hull.  Later, "People in the Hills" returns to similar territory, mingling buzzing and ominous drones with hollow wooden clacks; lazily jangling chimes; and wordless, spectral vocals.  "The Sun Tower" is a bit of an exception, however, as it unexpectedly transforms Mehdi's usual ghost-folk into something quite muscular and metallic with liberal use of distortion and a vigorous boom-boom-thwack percussion crescendo.  The lengthy "Rising Portal" is also a bit of an aberration, as its warm and radiant drones do not seem to belong on the same album as any of the disquieting surrounding pieces.  I suspect it was included because it has meaning within whatever overarching narrative arc the duo were hoping to weave with their sequencing.  In any case, it is a bit too pleasant and straightforward for my liking.  Curiously, Mehdi and Solange seem to be quite fond of that direction, as the limited edition version of Terror's Horns came with a second album (The Ladder) that leans very heavily in that vein.  Natural Snow Buildings admittedly do ambient drone quite well (they have a distinct knack for texture and layering), but there are too many other artists producing similar fare to make it as satisfying as something like "Dawn on a Buckskin."
As far as new Natural Snow Buildings albums go, I could not realistically have hoped for anything much better than Terror's Horns: it may not be perfect, but its high points are very high indeed.Also, I would have been perfectly content with yet another suite of songs that continue to improve upon past themes, so I am both delighted and surprised that Mehdi and Solange instead decided to both try something new stylistically and distill their oft-amorphous and overwhelming aesthetic into something a bit more manageable.  It is no small feat for a singular band to completely overhaul its sound without losing any of its distinctiveness.  As far as I am concerned, Terror's Horns is a hugely successful experiment, as half of its songs are absolutely revelatory.  The sole critique that I have (aside from both the length and inclusion of "Rising Portal") is that these shorter songs cannot weave quite the lushly mesmerizing and transformative illusion as some of the duo’s best long-form work.  That said, however, there is no real need to repeat what has already been done: the world already has many hours of great Natural Snow Buildings epics, so these shorter pieces are a welcome change of pace.  Anyone new to the band should definitely start here before plunging into the deep end.  Also, this is a great time for any existing fans numbed by the mountain of similar-sounding material to check back in.  This easily ranks among Natural Snow Buildings' finest work.
Four long years after their seismic performance at London’s Short Circuit Festival, Carter Tutti Void have finally returned with their first proper studio album.  Equally noteworthy is that fact that f(x) is the first new music to be released by Industrial Records since 2012's Throbbing Gristle/X-TG swan song Desertshore/The Final Report.  Given those circumstances, it would be hard for any record to live up to the resultant expectations, so it is not especially surprising that f(x) falls a bit short of the mark.  The problem is not that the trio were lacking ideas or inspiration, however: they have just backed themselves into a very constrained stylistic niche that cannot realistically yield multiple albums of compelling material.  That said, f(x) is still quite an enjoyable album, even if it is essentially Transverse Redux (albeit with some of the sharper edges sanded down a bit).
One of the many perils of music criticism is that it is very easy to develop a skewed perspective when I am a longtime fan of an artist.  That revelation smacked me in the head when I tried to figure why I was not nearly as thrilled by f(x) as I wanted to be.  Upon deeper reflection, it occurred to me that Carter Tutti Void is a fundamentally perverse and unsustainable project: I enjoyed Transverse because it was exciting to see three oft-dormant artists that I like team up for an unexpected, visceral, and explosive performance.  Only later does it occur to me that Transverse lacked almost everything that I love about Throbbing Gristle or Chris & Cosey: it was not transgressive, it was not sexy, it did not have great hooks, and there were not any actual songs.  What it offered instead was Chris Carter's wonderfully unique lurching, clanking and wheezing grooves; plenty of energy; and the wild spontaneity of Nik Void and Cosey Fanni Tutti's smoldering and echoing guitar improvisations.  As it happens, that was more than enough to make a cool album, but it was a very precarious cocktail indeed: Cosey is an iconic vocalist and performer, but I would probably not queue up to buy a solo improv guitar album by either her or Void.  Carter Tutti Void are not a band that entirely play to their strengths.
Notably, the trio have not made any significant alterations to their formula with f(x), which is essentially more of the same, except recorded at Chris & Cosey's home studio in Norfolk rather than at a gig.  Even the approach was roughly the same, as they set up for the recording process as though they were playing a live show in the studio–the sole significant innovation being that they allowed themselves three takes and assembled the finished pieces from those components.  Oddly, the sound quality is cleaner, but not always better–f(x) often feels quite a bit more mannered than its predecessor, even though the grooves are a bit more sexed-up.  Musically, however, Chris Carter is in prime form, unleashing six more throbbing and propulsive grooves that sound eerily like a living machine.  The best of lot is the opening "f = (2.4)," which sounds like a sinuous and sultry Carter Tutti song warped into a haunted, hallucinatory, and sci-fi-damaged juggernaut.  Later on, Carter delves into something that sounds like it belongs in a strip club scene in a film like Escape From New York ("f = (2.2)"), a burbling and insistent Motorik work-out ("f =(2.6)"), and an awesomely throbbing groove that sounds plucked from an '80s S&M club ("f=(2.7.)").
Notably, the "John Carpenter Strip Club" song is absent from the vinyl version of the album, but that gets at something very important about f(x): it absolutely does not matter at all.  While the best pieces are definitely the book-ends ("Warped Carter Tutti Song in Space" and "Retro S&M Sex Groove"), these six (or five) pieces are otherwise more or less interchangeable due to their hyper-limited palette.  There are no melodies, no chord changes, no hooks, no real development, and no real vocals (aside from some chopped and heavily processed howling and chanting).  The songs are all just vamps that play out for 8 or 10 minutes, then wind to a close once they have run their course.  Cosey and Nik certainly make quite a bit of racket on their end, but there is only so much they can do to make a song memorable when playing bowed guitar through a battery of effects pedals.  For all intents and purposes, these songs live or die by their grooves: the gnarled guitar cacophony over the top just serves to keep things interesting and unpredictable.  Also, these pieces are so similar that listening to more than a few at a time yields quickly diminishing impact.
All of that adds up to an alternately bracing, exhilarating, exhausting, frustrating, hypnotic, and wild whole (or maybe a handful of very cool (if overlong) singles, if viewed in a more charitable light).  In any case, my feelings regarding f(x) are deeply conflicted.  On one hand, it is always wonderful to hear more of Carter's weirdly heaving and imperfect rhythms and it is great that this project is bringing Chris & Cosey's work to new audiences.  On the other, I cannot help but feel that Carter Tutti Void have driven themselves into a creative cul de sac and that they desperately need to find a way out: this is not a well that they can viably keep returning to.  I am hoping that they eventually either take the plunge and write some actual songs or find some way to harness their rhythmic genius into something more immersive and longform.  In fact, I was hoping that might happen with f(x).  Alas.  Maybe next time.  For now, however, f(x) is a very likable, albeit minor, album.  It may not be the revelation that Transverse was, but the material is not necessarily weaker–it just feels that way because Carter Tutti Void tried to dazzle me with the same trick twice.
Crimewave's Andy Gibbs is best known as one of the guitarists for dour, doom metal artisans Thou, but his solo work could not possibly be more different. This collection compiles two tapes of solo synth material that is much more subtle than his guitar work, but lacks none of the creativity and diversity of his other output. Shades of classic film score and ambient music can be heard, but the final product stands strongly as a unique set of songs.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this set is that it, while heavily synth focused, is not heavily rooted in vintage sounds or gear.The technology employed by Gibbs has a fresh, contemporary sound to it, and while influences can be heard, they are subtle inspirations rather than styles being emulated.Pieces like "Broken Man" and "Fraud" have a lighter tinge to them that channels the likes of Tangerine Dream and Vangelis' soundtrack work, and both feature a strong, darker undercurrent to them that add significant depth.On the other hand, the hints of dissonance and chaos that permeate "Rebecca" are not miles removed from John Carpenter's best work.
This is not a collection of film scores, however, and Gibbs never sticks too closely to any specific template."Yarrow," for example, has a distinctly strange lead synth sound that makes the piece sound simultaneously jaunty and sad, resulting in an odd mood, but a compelling work.Idiosyncratic sounds drive "Devastated by a Stranger's Remark" as well, giving the piece a crunchier, more dissonant color, but the restrained mood stays consistent.
While this is a two volume collection, the pieces on the second cassette feel more thematically consistent, like a traditional album."In Wonder" and "Cypressdrone" both find Gibbs enshrouding synths and piano sounds in a concrete bunker of reverb, and both of which drift closer to noise at times, while never losing their musical structure.Even the glassy keyboards of "Healing Beam," while not as bleak, still convey a definite sense of sadness throughout.
One of the lighter moments on this second tape is the shimmering synths and weird rhythmic loops of "Allure of Crime," but even there the sound stays mostly shadowy.It may only have hints at harshness, but "Burnt Oak" remains dark and cold, drifting on a big droning bass line as squalls of electronic noise shine through occasionally.The concluding "Shame" is where Gibbs embraces ugliness the most.Forceful, buzzing keyboard passages and white noise make for an aggressive piece to begin with, but the constant tremolo effect on the volume adds an additional level of intensity to it.
Cinematic drama abounds on this collection of Andy Gibbs' work as Crimewave, but the constantly changing moods and diverse array of sounds he employs throughout these two tapes makes it impossible to pigeonhole.While it may bear little direct resemblance to his other persona in Thou, the force and intensity is similar, and it results in a lengthy collection that stays fresh and brilliant throughout.
Bayou Electric is the final part of an unplanned trilogy that began with the wonderful Feel Free and continued with the almost-as-good Bridges.  Much like the two previous installments, this latest release has its origins in an unusual and compelling idea: in this case, composing a long-form piece that organically complements and interacts with an unaltered field recording taken from Pitre's native Louisiana.  Unlike previous installments, however, Bayou Electric's laudable ambition regrettably exceeded Pitre's ability to do it justice.  The problem is not that this is a bad album–it is not (at least not for those who enjoy pastoral ambient drone).  Rather, Bayou is disappointing solely because it fails to be particularly distinctive or moving, which is an especially tragic fate for an album with such sincere and personal aspirations.
The field recording in question was made by Pitre himself back in 2010 at Four Mile Bayou, where his family has owned land for several generations.  There is nothing particularly exceptional about the recording, aside from its inherent poignancy for the composer, but any competent night recording of a rural area in the Deep South is invariably going yield a vibrant and complexly textured thrum of insect life.  This one is no exception and Pitre recognized that.  In that regard, I greatly appreciate what he set out to do here: find a way to use the recordings without chopping, tweaking, or shaping them or relegating them to just a minor layer of added texture or background.  For Duane, the chittering, droning hordes of crickets and frogs are the raison d'être for Bayou Electric, both richly musical and deeply meaningful (his family have been living among these sounds for almost a hundred years).  Unfortunately, this is not an album by Chris Watson, master sound-recordist; this is an album by Duane Pitre, electro-acoustic composer.  Consequently, Bayou Electric's impressive ideals get muddied quite a bit by the artificial textures of synthesizers and sine waves.
Such a choice is extremely perplexing coming from Pitre, as he has historically been quite fond of more timeless instrumentation such as cellos and violins.  There are some of those here too, but Bayou Electric is an album that begs for earthy, organic instrumentation that can fit seamlessly amidst a wildlife chorus of croaks, buzzes, and hums.  Anything else just sounds either false or blandly homogenizing.  For better or worse, this album errs more towards the latter.  While there is evidence of a concerted effort to shape the music around the very vocal crickets and their bayou friends, Pitre's sustained, radiant synth swells unavoidably grab much of the focus.  Consequently, Bayou Electric largely sounds like a beatific ambient drone reverie circa 2015 playing in a room with all the windows open.  The only significant difference from such a reductionist dismissal is that the crickets are sometimes as loud as the instrumentation (or louder), so imagining that someone helpfully gave them microphones and an amp yields a somewhat more accurate picture.
Of course, my disappointment is highly subjective and is shaped by my own expectations based upon both the album's description and my previous encounters with Pitre's work.  With Feel Free, he proved that he is an imaginative and innovative composer capable of making great, distinctive art.  With Bridges, he proved that he is restlessly evolving and appreciates the power of dissonance.  There is no dissonance or distinctiveness to be found this time around though.  While I do not think that Duane forgot what made him a compelling composer in the first place, I suspect that his desire to move away from using other musicians combined with a wish to record a tender tribute to his home steered him into some dubious and toothless aesthetic territory.  He did have a great idea though–things just went a bit awry with the execution, at least as far as creating compelling, forward-thinking art is concerned.  As far as pleasant (if unspectacular) ambient drone is concerned, Bayou Electric is reasonably effective at scratching that particular itch, approximating some of Stars of the Lid’s more benignly pastoral work.  There is certainly a place for that, but an artist of Pitre’s caliber has no business lingering there.
"Out of the depths of our complaints, it could be all so simple. To be never fooled by the finesse of a long-yearned for solidity, but in the momentary aplomb of a sleepy walk threading through familiar streets we'd hum our way, alto, baritone and tenor toward some harmonious end. An effect like some wonderful recollection of one or other of those technicolour movies. Not real for sure, but if you are in the mood… [...] (Philip Jeck, April 2015)
"To make this record I used Fidelity record players, Casio Keyboards, Ibanez bass guitar, Sony minidisc players, Ibanez and Zoom effects pedals, assorted percussion, a Behringer mixer and it was edited it at home with minidisc players and on a laptop computer."
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An colossal audiovisual adaption of Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, by one of the uncontested master isolationists of the ethereal static sounds, a sonic symphony of the unconsciouss and a defiant decceleration critique of today society through the ultimate modern text. Thomas Köner has crafted the ultimate 4 bpm masterpiece.
Spherical collections of stars form around black holes in situ; that is, locally to their cosmic neighbourhoods. It is said that future space colonization will rely on sourcing supplies in situ. Construction in situ uses raw materials at the site: colossal sculptures such as Naqsh-e Rustam, the Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Rushmore were built in this fashion.
Wild, organic machine grooves, with a mind’s eye on naked treetops and an early sunset. Melody breathes out from dubwise fx, percussion by turns sinewy and floating, sub blasts and stripped synth arrangements. Keys on air.
Astro Love is the first widely available solo release in several years from Kawabata, emerging from a period of relative quiet with this blockbuster Krautrock-flavored epic. On the whole, this a lovely and impressionistic record, the other side of Makoto's outrageous works with Acid Mothers' Temple. Taking cues from classics of the genre like Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra and Steve Hillage's Rainbow Dome Music, "Dos Nurages" is the centerpiece of the record, a 41-minute hypnotic epic, with echoplex’d guitar anchoring a stream of expertly done glissando. "Astro Love & Infinite Kisses" is a darker drone, in the traditions of Kawabata’s INUI series of releases for VHF. "Woman From Dream Island" finishes the record with a thick buzz of tamboura overlaid with trippy backwards guitar, before giving way to a gentle finger-picked acoustic coda.
Astro Love is the first widely available solo release in several years from Kawabata, emerging from a period of relative quiet with this blockbuster Krautrock-flavored epic. On the whole, this a lovely and impressionistic record, the other side of Makoto's outrageous works with Acid Mothers' Temple. Taking cues from classics of the genre like Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra and Steve Hillage's Rainbow Dome Music, "Dos Nurages" is the centerpiece of the record, a 41-minute hypnotic epic, with echoplex’d guitar anchoring a stream of expertly done glissando. "Astro Love & Infinite Kisses" is a darker drone, in the traditions of Kawabata’s INUI series of releases for VHF. "Woman From Dream Island" finishes the record with a thick buzz of tamboura overlaid with trippy backwards guitar, before giving way to a gentle finger-picked acoustic coda.
King Midas Sound is comprised of Kevin Martin (also known for his work under The Bug moniker), singer/poet Roger Robinson, and vocalist Kiki Hitomi. Their landmark 2009 debut Waiting For You on Hyperdub quickly established them as falling sonically somewhere between sub-electronic lovers' rock, dub and the bleakest, slowest mutation of narco hip-hop, while on the live front they were nestled somewhere between the apocalypse and FX-drenched, shoegaze laments. In both arenas they are known as a brooding sonic force. With a move over to Ninja Tune plus the release of 2013's lauded Aroo single and in particular its b-side "Funny Love," an even deeper sense of spaciousness began to set in. That track’s dramatic tonal shift acted as a catalyst for the idea of a conceptual collaborative project to be born. Hence this first edition (in a series of four), appropriately titled Edition 1.
Looking even further back it does seems fitting that the person (Kevin Martin) who once curated a compilation called Isolationism is one of the key contributors behind this truly mesmeric examination of melancholy and desolation, Edition 1 features collaborator number one, Austrian guitarist / electronic musician Fennesz. His 2001 album Endless Summer was a swirling mix of electric tonal guitars and sweeping emotional shifts which inspired and sparked an admiration within Kevin and Roger to bring him onboard. Utilizing improvised guitar tracks, samples, and unreleased material from Fennesz's archive, Edition 1 took shape within the KMS framework. In the wake of Kevin's last Bug album Angels & Devils, he wanted to create a record focused on kaleidoscopic sonic beauty, bathed in the bluest emotional lyricism. This record reflects the group’s past, present, and a truly extraordinary future.
Edition 1 is a tide coming in. A fog reaching out into nothing, and encapsulating everything. An ultimate parting note drifting into absolute loneliness, swept up in a sumptuously blurred, dronal haze. Hallucinatory tone poems of heartbreak, despair, disappearance, and displacement. Seductively spatial sketches of long goodbyes. Music to cling to or to be used to move past. Sounds set adrift on their own tonal plain and reigned back in by Roger & Kiki's complimentary, yet extremely different deliveries. Cosmic blues meets a siren’s song. A zonal re-examination of "It's Raining Today" or an audio representation of a Sugimoto "Seascapes" photo... A high water mark forever etched to memory.
Blood Room has only a handful of releases under that moniker, but the sound of Chroma and Coda is that of a confident, self-assured electronic artist. Hints of the early 1990s and the dawn of techno appear throughout, but with an appropriately dissonant, experimental bent to keep it sounding fresh and contemporary.
Duality places a notable role throughout the eight songs on this tape.Blood Room builds most of these songs from conventional rhythms and melodies, but never in an expected way.Instead, he blends those expected moments with bizarre, processed noises and random bits of sound.The relaxed kick drum lead rhythm of "Rite in the Rain" (a collaboration with SOLO1) is treated with just the right amount of distortion and processing to keep it from sounding too conventional.Hints of melody glide through but only fleetingly, and everything has a satisfying analog crunch to it.
"Colourism" is similar, though with a more erratic, but cleaner rhythm program driving it.It has a similar combination of conventional pacing, but mixed with weird synth outbursts and strange processing to give it an entirely different edge."Sapir" thuds away with a 4/4 bass drum rhythm, but bathes everything in a nice variety of reverbs, and mixes cleaner melodic leads with bits of chaos and static to excellent effect.
The stranger moments are frequent as well.Blood Room strips down to bare essentials on "Alfven," with a light synth lead coupled with a rhythm that sounds as if it were constructed with the tiniest fragments of human voice.For all its odd instrumentation, it is a surprisingly relaxed piece."Steen" may be the tape's highpoint for me, however.Skittering noises, big beats, and dark synthesizer work form the foundation that bizarre sounds are cast atop, coming together as a taut, strongly composed piece of music that is wonderfully unconventional, but still has a great memorable rhythm to it.
Blood Room's sound may be influenced by those early days of techno and its variety of offshoots, but their unconventional approach to the sounds and how they are mixed is what gives the Chroma and Coda a distinct identity.There might not be big danceable beats, but it is the obtuseness that makes this an excellent work.
Four long years after their seismic performance at London’s Short Circuit Festival, Carter Tutti Void have finally returned with their first proper studio album.  Equally noteworthy is that fact that f(x) is the first new music to be released by Industrial Records since 2012's Throbbing Gristle/X-TG swan song Desertshore/The Final Report.  Given those circumstances, it would be hard for any record to live up to the resultant expectations, so it is not especially surprising that f(x) falls a bit short of the mark.  The problem is not that the trio were lacking ideas or inspiration, however: they have just backed themselves into a very constrained stylistic niche that cannot realistically yield multiple albums of compelling material.  That said, f(x) is still quite an enjoyable album, even if it is essentially Transverse Redux (albeit with some of the sharper edges sanded down a bit).
Crimewave's Andy Gibbs is best known as one of the guitarists for dour, doom metal artisans Thou, but his solo work could not possibly be more different. This collection compiles two tapes of solo synth material that is much more subtle than his guitar work, but lacks none of the creativity and diversity of his other output. Shades of classic film score and ambient music can be heard, but the final product stands strongly as a unique set of songs.
Blood Room has only a handful of releases under that moniker, but the sound of Chroma and Coda is that of a confident, self-assured electronic artist. Hints of the early 1990s and the dawn of techno appear throughout, but with an appropriately dissonant, experimental bent to keep it sounding fresh and contemporary.
