

"No Fiction" rides a punchy drum machine rhythm with claps so sharp they could split logs, but in every other way, it's essentially an ambient track, with a muted lead bubbling up through swirling, indistinct chords. The track's structure doesn't really lead anywhere, but it needn't; it's enough to bob in place, marveling at the way heavy tape compression squashes the sounds into amorphous shapes. "Ether" is more straightforward, with dubby chords and a slinky drum pattern cruising on auto-pilot. It's less gripping, but it still has the potential to hypnotize, given the appropriate context. "Kommands," on the other hand, sends Aybee's bathysphere deep into uncharted waters to discover a species approximating slow-motion UK funky. Hard, syncopated toms bash against a Morse code of a bassline, but they're no match for the inky drones that swell up and swallow the track whole, until all that's left is a cloud of debris.
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Published /
Mon / 9 Apr 2012 -
Words /
Philip Sherburne -
Tracklist /
A1 No Fiction
A2 Ether
B Kommands
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