Geomatic: Control Agents Geomatic: Control Agents (Triumverate) While the folks from Triumverate often deal in the harsher side of the noise spectrum, Geomatic offers more-subdued soundscapes with the dangerous midnight ambiance of Control Agents. Threatening technologies merge with ageless realms of morbid fantasies... ominous though sometimes beautiful. Against a blackened void, electron streams ripple outward from Auxiliary Transmitter, soon to be punctuated by more-earthly percussion and organically squiggling flute emissions. Slithery presences lurk in the darkly reverberating murk of Skinner Box... oppressively atmospheric, in a good way. Light beats permeate the ever-shifting tableau of Implanted Thoughts, laced with faint choral drafts, ethnotextures and disembodied voice fragments. Sweltering nocturnal ooze buzzes with electrical currents, faraway thunder and wafting ephemerality in I.G.O.S. (3:52). Smooth-though-edgy space travels lead to the electronic rhythms and bass of Stimulating Electrode Implant, wrapped in celestial symphonics. Seeping in gradually (rather than invading), Intruders (10:12) hovers in thrumming rays and machine-like resonance. Pattering metallic beats add sinuous third-worldly percussiveness to the shimmering veils of sound. Control Agents' liner notes yield plenty of "mind control" information and links if you're into the sinister-technology angle. Me, I'm just happy to set myself adrift in these seven pleasantly foreboding panoramas from Geomatic. Some fresh variations on the whole "dark ambient" thing, artfully arranged with classic drones and moans. A frightfully impressed 8.8. Visit Triumverate for more... This review posted August 31, 2001 AmbiEntrance © 2001-1997 by David J Opdyke (except CD cover art, rights retained by original owners).