Peppered throughout Climbing one can find elements of microscopic electronic bits falling by the wayside as they are reconfigured and mangled into coherent mechanical lava flows.
Released back in February 2014, XTRNGR etches a new path for listeners to consume either on the dance floor or in the comfort of their listening rooms. Ranging from raw experimental electronics to soothing hypnotic rhythms, Climbing is an apt title for Spain’s fledgling Discontinu Records.
Taking synths and pealing away their exterior shell, tracks like “Driving noises” bare the brunt of all things chaotically beautiful. Subtle, stretched voices maneuver through bass-laden flickering and heavily scorched percussion. Elsewhere you’ll find techno slabs administered in a minimal vein on tracks like “Climbing the walls” and “Bring round” and more ambient trails featured on “All Down,” “Cry cloud” and “Uncover your imagination.” It’s when tracks like “Play stop” begin to take shape that XTRNGR’s wide ranging scope of sound and vision come to fruition. Slight vocal snippets ebb and flow among tantalizing clicks and cuts reminiscent of the eerie harmonic panoramas Tobias Lilja usually inhabits.
Peppered throughout Climbing one can find elements of microscopic electronic bits falling by the wayside as they are reconfigured and mangled into coherent mechanical lava flows. Sliding through deconstructed basslines and broken rhythmic styles, XTRNGR lands in top form as Climbing weaves a mysterious sonic web.
Climbing is available on Discontinu.
