| The first disc (11 tracks @ 72:11) focuses on 12k, adding a few new names to its usual roster...
for instance, Sogar, whose effervescent buzzes and clicks of
"L1" are stirred into soft mechanical drones. Taylor Deupree's own "Bare (Bare)" emits a strand of self-replicating chimes amid a lightly glaring sheen. Long-runner "Aftersnd_birth (in 4 parts)" (12:21) sputters, blips and resonates, arranged by Mark Fell into semi-rhythmic patterns, or just allowed to drift very quietly.
Faint tempo-matching pips exist behind lovely "Grammar"'s humming fluctuations, then set afloat a steady-state tonal plane courtesy of Dan Abrams.
From some silicon rift, shifting multiplanar forms interact almost-organically, as envisioned by Kim Cascone in "Dust Theories (Sferic 1 Mix)". Like some insectoid communication,
Vend counts "1.2.3." in wet little clicks.
The second disc (8 tracks @ 56:19) enters on Roel Meelkop's generally quiet "Liner", which veers once from its course, into more active micronoise. "Vibra" (3:29) from our favorite female micro-artist Miki Yui, offers a short emission of machine-like essences and wispy highs. Long strands of droning resonance are underscored by steady mechanized rumblings in "Kernel Panic"(10:28) from Bernhard Günter.
Beneath the faint electronic warbles etched into
Steve Roden's "Mobile Stabile" a throbbing space-engine seems to thrum. Quavery blipping/ringing tones from
*0 are seperated by periods of virtual silence when "2.001K" close the comp.
Other artists include: Noto, Mikael Stavöstrand, Komet, 0/R, GOEM, Richard Chartier, Immedia and DUUL_DRV.
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