By Jove! The first track is so good I nearly had an orgasm myself, I loved it!-) That was Alien Phone Sex and I'm from Jupiter. The sounds used in this track are wonderful, just the way I like them. A good blending. Had to listen to this one a few times first! Traveling Nowhere makes me feel good because the energy remains constant, but in a different, though no less delectable form. Again, some of these sounds are exquisite, the fact that they are part of a track of equal status, makes them more so. Very infectious. This track is definitely traveling somewhere... the variability of noise manipulation is a testimony to itself.
Hammer-action bass begins Burnt Toast for Breakfast, and it slowly builds beats first. It retains the energy still, with its own unique blend of noise and rhythm. Good sounds that fit together well, with that hypnotic effect that minimalism can have. Traffic Jam drives in noise-first, blended with the sort of conversation you have with yourself whilst stuck in traffic, just to pass the time. Milder in a bass sense it makes up for it with work in the higher level of sound, using it all to form a coherent structure. How to capture a sense of the static, in a piece of music...
Circuit Breaker screams its electricity at you, the transportation and management of such a fiery, energetic element must sound fascinating inside, just for a while. The noise turns into a cool track that mixes and changes really well, and echoes the screams here and there. The flow of movement and its routing and re-routing become part of the structure in rhythm. There are peaks and dips, just like my bandwidth belies testimony to. Ultimately, there is finally cessation. The supply is eventually, and inevitably, induced to be turned off, however good it feels.
There is a curious, reflective, reverberation going on in The Traveler. The structure and melody are fine, quite subtle, but strong still. At one point it suddenly feels more spacious, like overcoming the brow of a hill and being presented with a new horizon. Then, it is down into the valley below to explore still, with a deeper resonance.
External Affairs is busy from the start and has a sense of relentlessness, eternally grinding wheels of bureaucracy and politics. A musical resolution of mundanity, marvellously done. Then, there is the gloriousness of a Sunny Day, open and airy, spacious. The melody is quite jolly when it comes into play, the icing on the cake. A nice, full-sounding minimalism. Busy, but not overwhelming.
Monkey Business does not monkey around getting right on with the track, nice and assertive and bold. The inherent power is omnipotent, as becomes evident as this and all the other tracks, progress and unfold. Then next a burbling, clattering track starts and we have Reign of the Robots, suitably sinister melodies fill the rhythm framework. Again, in a very forthright manner, but then robots are usually representationally bold.
News Ticker processes in tape appropriately, how else could it be. Around it a simply structured and powerful tune develops. But what is it saying? That this is an all round brilliant representation of what I like to call complex minimalist electronic music. Proud, effective, enjoyable expression of life and it own various complexities, often with simple answers.
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