Excavated Tapes 1992-1999 (Vol. 1)
Astro:Dynamics leans further into the leftfield with an engrossing new album of haptic machine music from Best Available Technology, fresh from smart drops on Opal Tapes and Further. For this release, the first in a proposed series, the Portland, Oregon-based producer - real name Kevin Palmer - delved deep into his archive and unearthed a cache of drum machine experiments recorded between ‘92 and ‘97. Though sparse and unfinessed, the music culled from those tapes isn’t mindlessly primitive, nor is it limited in scope. With its chattering breaks and dawn-treading ambience, ‘Keys TDK SA-X100’ sounds like it’s fallen off the back of Aphex’s Drukqs, while ‘Prmtv 02 TDK SA-X’ is dessicated acid techno easily the equal of a Container side, and ‘Chm Bss Clp Maxell 94’ is the kind of throbbing, atmospheric industrial you’ve spent hours of your life combing Mutant Sounds for. Closer ‘Wt Drms Cso Maxell 94’’s ersatz, ferric dub summons not just contemporary tinkerers like Ekoplekz, Wanda Group, Dean Blunt and Thought Broadcast but classic underground sides from 49 Americans and General Strike as well.
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Astro:Dynamics leans further into the leftfield with an engrossing new album of haptic machine music from Best Available Technology, fresh from smart drops on Opal Tapes and Further. For this release, the first in a proposed series, the Portland, Oregon-based producer - real name Kevin Palmer - delved deep into his archive and unearthed a cache of drum machine experiments recorded between ‘92 and ‘97. Though sparse and unfinessed, the music culled from those tapes isn’t mindlessly primitive, nor is it limited in scope. With its chattering breaks and dawn-treading ambience, ‘Keys TDK SA-X100’ sounds like it’s fallen off the back of Aphex’s Drukqs, while ‘Prmtv 02 TDK SA-X’ is dessicated acid techno easily the equal of a Container side, and ‘Chm Bss Clp Maxell 94’ is the kind of throbbing, atmospheric industrial you’ve spent hours of your life combing Mutant Sounds for. Closer ‘Wt Drms Cso Maxell 94’’s ersatz, ferric dub summons not just contemporary tinkerers like Ekoplekz, Wanda Group, Dean Blunt and Thought Broadcast but classic underground sides from 49 Americans and General Strike as well.
Astro:Dynamics leans further into the leftfield with an engrossing new album of haptic machine music from Best Available Technology, fresh from smart drops on Opal Tapes and Further. For this release, the first in a proposed series, the Portland, Oregon-based producer - real name Kevin Palmer - delved deep into his archive and unearthed a cache of drum machine experiments recorded between ‘92 and ‘97. Though sparse and unfinessed, the music culled from those tapes isn’t mindlessly primitive, nor is it limited in scope. With its chattering breaks and dawn-treading ambience, ‘Keys TDK SA-X100’ sounds like it’s fallen off the back of Aphex’s Drukqs, while ‘Prmtv 02 TDK SA-X’ is dessicated acid techno easily the equal of a Container side, and ‘Chm Bss Clp Maxell 94’ is the kind of throbbing, atmospheric industrial you’ve spent hours of your life combing Mutant Sounds for. Closer ‘Wt Drms Cso Maxell 94’’s ersatz, ferric dub summons not just contemporary tinkerers like Ekoplekz, Wanda Group, Dean Blunt and Thought Broadcast but classic underground sides from 49 Americans and General Strike as well.