Following his exceptional 'Diversions 1994-1996' LP back in 2012, we got perhaps a truer glimpse of Lee Gamble's range and practice on its sibling side 'Dutch Tvashtar Plumes'; a substantially longer suite of computerised techno gems oscillating between Hecker-esque sonic illusions and the sort of post-Detroit/UK techno that Actress carved his name on.
In contrast to Lee's challenging early work as co-founder of the CYRK collective and the sense of melancholic euphoria on 'Diversions…', there's also a playful sleight of hand at work on 'Dutch Tvashtar...' in fine balance with eerier, eldritch themes. He beautifully captures that classic dichotomy of UK rave, riding a wave between the psychedelic highs of aerobic mysticism and serotonin depletion's dark bliss, and that mad bit in the middle when hooks are heard through cubicle doors, all smudged and mangled, lodged in your nut in the taxi home.
The album's structure iterates the effect, blurring between shorter fragments such as 'Black Snow' and the filtered rhythms of 'Coma Skank (BinocConverge Mix)' (even ending on a sound like that Russian Rave in A Forest youtube clip, a post-party fave of ours) with something like the magical effect of Mark Leckey's 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' or V/Vm's 'The Death Of Rave', and equally in the transition between 'Barker Spirals' head-fug dub and the teasing disco-tech compressions of 'Nowhen Hooks' leading into the Rephlexian melody of 'Tvash Kwawar' and the psychoacoustic stranding 'Kuang Shaped Prowla'. No doubt, it's hugely recommended to fans of everything from AFX to Markus Schmickler, The Connection Machine or Actress.
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Following his exceptional 'Diversions 1994-1996' LP back in 2012, we got perhaps a truer glimpse of Lee Gamble's range and practice on its sibling side 'Dutch Tvashtar Plumes'; a substantially longer suite of computerised techno gems oscillating between Hecker-esque sonic illusions and the sort of post-Detroit/UK techno that Actress carved his name on.
In contrast to Lee's challenging early work as co-founder of the CYRK collective and the sense of melancholic euphoria on 'Diversions…', there's also a playful sleight of hand at work on 'Dutch Tvashtar...' in fine balance with eerier, eldritch themes. He beautifully captures that classic dichotomy of UK rave, riding a wave between the psychedelic highs of aerobic mysticism and serotonin depletion's dark bliss, and that mad bit in the middle when hooks are heard through cubicle doors, all smudged and mangled, lodged in your nut in the taxi home.
The album's structure iterates the effect, blurring between shorter fragments such as 'Black Snow' and the filtered rhythms of 'Coma Skank (BinocConverge Mix)' (even ending on a sound like that Russian Rave in A Forest youtube clip, a post-party fave of ours) with something like the magical effect of Mark Leckey's 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' or V/Vm's 'The Death Of Rave', and equally in the transition between 'Barker Spirals' head-fug dub and the teasing disco-tech compressions of 'Nowhen Hooks' leading into the Rephlexian melody of 'Tvash Kwawar' and the psychoacoustic stranding 'Kuang Shaped Prowla'. No doubt, it's hugely recommended to fans of everything from AFX to Markus Schmickler, The Connection Machine or Actress.
Following his exceptional 'Diversions 1994-1996' LP back in 2012, we got perhaps a truer glimpse of Lee Gamble's range and practice on its sibling side 'Dutch Tvashtar Plumes'; a substantially longer suite of computerised techno gems oscillating between Hecker-esque sonic illusions and the sort of post-Detroit/UK techno that Actress carved his name on.
In contrast to Lee's challenging early work as co-founder of the CYRK collective and the sense of melancholic euphoria on 'Diversions…', there's also a playful sleight of hand at work on 'Dutch Tvashtar...' in fine balance with eerier, eldritch themes. He beautifully captures that classic dichotomy of UK rave, riding a wave between the psychedelic highs of aerobic mysticism and serotonin depletion's dark bliss, and that mad bit in the middle when hooks are heard through cubicle doors, all smudged and mangled, lodged in your nut in the taxi home.
The album's structure iterates the effect, blurring between shorter fragments such as 'Black Snow' and the filtered rhythms of 'Coma Skank (BinocConverge Mix)' (even ending on a sound like that Russian Rave in A Forest youtube clip, a post-party fave of ours) with something like the magical effect of Mark Leckey's 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' or V/Vm's 'The Death Of Rave', and equally in the transition between 'Barker Spirals' head-fug dub and the teasing disco-tech compressions of 'Nowhen Hooks' leading into the Rephlexian melody of 'Tvash Kwawar' and the psychoacoustic stranding 'Kuang Shaped Prowla'. No doubt, it's hugely recommended to fans of everything from AFX to Markus Schmickler, The Connection Machine or Actress.