Whenever I listen to a new tape, I
keep a kind of epi-pen handy, just in case I run into something that even
remotely rhymes with the word ‘techno’, so this tape, on my first run through
(sans headphones), had me wheezing and sweating at moments. Luckily, on the
second go (with headphones) I found the continuous exploration between eraticaly
shifting electronic timbres (not just one, but two independently shifting
layers!) sometimes reminded me of my highschool best friend’s playing me ‘the
best band ever’ (autechre), but much less repetitive (my ultimate beef with
hechno), changing it up on nearly every next measure (instead of every 32), so
I began to relax and let what ended up being a cross-genre journey take me from
middle-eastern grooves to death metalish stompings to light-hearted movie-scapes
of lovers doing what’er I guess they do when not in the bedroom.
I usually pass anything hechno related to friends who enjoy
it way more, but I’ve a feeling I’ll be keeping and painting along with this
release in the background a few times before considering giving it up, as the
dream-like transitions are non-stop and engaging and the EQ was pretty fucking
stellar all across the board.
The link below apparently isn’t the exact same as the tape I
just listened to for some reason, though the covers are identical.
and/or
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- Jacob An Kittenplan
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