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There's something sweetly melancholy about Soil (3:21) by Horchata; blunted musical twinkles find their way through flatly floating haze, almost inaudible voices and rippling digital grit. A muffled rhythm and vaporous musical tones flow and echo through Center (remix), often adorned with glitches. Subtle mid-tempo beats fade in as everything gels and swirls slowly before entering more chaotic territories, then returning to smooth/glitchy.
A softly aggressive pattern pumps Twine's Sindl with energy, around which various microscopic elements collect. Beats set in, though are suffused in digital processing effects which (quite nicely) render them with a rough-edged corrosion.
Though breezing in at first, Horchata's Wind eventually picks up plenty of abrasive fluctuations, thinning again near the close to radiate warmer tones. Wind (remix) comes in stronger, and is more immediately subjected to assorted audio tortures (in the form of record-skip screetches and other caustic sweeps), backed by a continually cycling train-like clatter.
Twine's original Center is agreeably more straightforward in its rhythmic pulse and syncopation, though still awash in dreamy effervescence and tiny, rippling vocal-like fragments. The track gains power toward its end, relinquishing it to drift to a close.
In Sindl (remix), the previous form seems to be digitally boiled down into particles, then reshuffled, pounded upon and pulverized into a broken, weathered mosaic, some pieces of which are only scattered dust. The shortest track becomes the longest remix by hyperextending some elements (the droning haze) and adding others (grand piano sounds), resulting in something both isolationist and elegant. Vocal snippets, though buried, are clearer in Soil (remix) (22:14) and the pace is much slower. About nine minutes in, the piano fades and electronic ruffling intrudes, followed by scritchy waves and a reappearance of a repetitive piano pattern, which receives occasional visitations by various forms of audio grunge which faintly override as the notes (and everything else) gradually fade away.
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