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The beatronic reverie of HAL X's "if I ever played mono" (3:51) abounds in sweetly sweeping soundwaves and bits of distorted space-radio talk (and it's not in mono). Sedate synth sheets slip between Tsching's spattering cymbals and downtempo grooviness of chimingly lovely "zeitlos". The softness of "barbeQ" by
resonance 44 is underscored by sinuous bass riffs; pumping rhythms temporarily shift into crispy microsound stylings, then swept robot voices do their thing.
The insistently percolating guitar warps of
"into deep" flutter over gabriel le mar's pulsating synthesizer-and-percussion patterns.
Some guy named pete namlook delivers "mindlab" where synthchoral layers, spoken samples and peppy percussion merge with wordless female croons and follow-along accompaniment. Interlocking motifs reverberate in the neodelic structures of astral projection's "unbelievable technology" whose occasionally spoken title is really the only place where this disc sounds like it could be a "commercial".
In "sax on dub", pseudotribal beats go downtown to be engulfed by
a smooth urban groove, courtesy of pascal f.e.o.s.'s rippling hornsounds and seductive bass maneuvers. Soft mutated shimmers open
"a pleasure benchmark" by dkdent, then the track pulses with an elastic low end and body-moving mid-tempo beats; gotta dig that crazy theremin-style lead and other growling keys-riffs.
Prolific electronician oliver lieb applies spacious atmospheres to the mutedly beaty "klangschale", twinkling with faint synthorchestral touches. zardos drapes his "water planet" (10:05) with subdued strands of (initially) beatless beauty and light trance moods.
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