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The dreamily drifting synth waves of opening chrysalis are stirred by cool urbanistic drumbeats, occasional rippling guitar phrases and pulsating waves. A slightly grittier atmosphere of grayness writhes behind the black box as beats, then eventually spooky piano notes, travel through this amorphously industrial non-zone. Runoff from that track seeps directly into chimera (10:01), swirling like oil on the sea. Faint bass bubbles rise, as do light cymbals then with an inrushing wave of long guitar strands, the piece solidifies, still retaining its relaxed fluidity, to be topped with more-electronic accents and increasingly animated rhythmics, interspersed with hovering beatlessness. The livelier drumhits of drum 'n' drummer (3:24) rat-and-tat all over the smooth bass rivulets and synth flow briefly embedded with quiet spoken word. telepathy's shapelessly spiraling e-symphonics whorl in a pretty-yet-ominous void, textured by unidentifiable patterns; echoey tones and spattering beats filter into the equation. special order 937 injects flailing drum'n'bassisms into a world of unpredictably synthetized soundshapes.
As if strutting down a darkened neon-streaked city street in slow motion,
trepan's oozing progress is marked by rhythm-pocked tonal blurs and shiftingly unreal atmospherics.
Other tracks include the thunderous ebb-and-flow of
yamato gun, whispery-wordy last embrace (which appeared on Waveform's Slumberland (episode two) comp) and moodily energetic closer
ha ha style.
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