A maze of extensive digitized attractions where experimental electronic connoisseurs will revel in its flickering pulse for years to come.
Brittle blips and tangled ambient motifs
The idiosyncrasies of electronic music and its expansive sub-genres have yielded such an explosion of talent that it’s difficult not to miss any highlights along the way. Othello Aubern’s Pace Serpente for the burgeoning 3OP (Three Operators) imprint delivers intricate minimal glitch grooves and metallic rhythms running parallel with artists from the clicks’n cuts arena including Oval, Jan Jelinek, snd, Alva Noto et al. Each piece maintains its own sonic tentacles through which randomized beat patches glue to subtle glitch shards. The minuscule tones surrounding Pace Serpente continue to shuffle and fragment into hundreds of components as it progresses, that while at times fracturing melodics, also seamlessly coalesces as a whole.
It’s a strange and captivating assortment of brittle blips and tangled ambient motifs that spark in all the right corners (reference “Aspalax Credo” and the title track) just as sliced and diced tunes including “Scinti” and “Ulyssean Overture” are just as sublime as any recent Autechre output. It’s a maze of extensive digitized attractions (reference the bumpier low-end thud of “Yaw”) where experimental electronic connoisseurs will revel in its flickering pulse for years to come.
Pace Serpente is available on 3OP. [Bandcamp]
