Celebrating Umor Rex‘s 15th anniversary, Spume & Recollection is an encapsulating 40 minutes—tranquilizing the senses with emphasis on pulsing lo-fi drums and subtle bass elements throughout.
Calming blips and bleeps rummage through laid back dub-infused notes
Drifting drones and tones, loosened modular dub and hypnotic synthesizer escapism, Driftmachine (Berlin-based duo Andreas Gerth and Florian Zimmer) continue to unearth desolate, sparse and compelling electronics with a form of simplicity that others in the genre could only grasp for. The looping clockwork-like patterns on Spume & Recollection offer the listener another avenue to retreat to—its calming blips and bleeps rummage through laid back dub-infused notes with pseudo-technoid shales and yet it doesn’t stick to one particular style or format. Instead what Driftmachine manage to craft is a wide angled electronic lens (through four tracks spread over 40 minutes) flashing back and forth between nostalgic echoing bursts and fluid ambient undercurrents that fans of Pole, The Orb, and Monolake will easily gravitate towards. As a result, precision electronic production and glitchy strands cascade in front of our eyes—just far enough to be out of reach. Celebrating Umor Rex’s 15th anniversary, Spume & Recollection is an encapsulating 40 minutes—tranquilizing the senses with emphasis on pulsing lo-fi drums and subtle bass elements throughout.
Spume & Recollection is available on Umor Rex. [Bandcamp]
