Weaving basslines that burst from every corner, Femto Tudomány is a distracting yet somehow attractively coherent extended player.
C. Mantle (aka Christopher Mantle and Acre label head) delivers his latest half-dozen, and while not entirely drenched in broken electro, Femto Tudomány dives straight into the abstract, etching out a noisier stream where muddied voices take shape then break apart by way of encrusted electronics.
“Abalna Szajaban” offers dribbling interstellar dust and chaotic beauty culled from a scorched DSP assemblage as “235 Uran” exhibits darkened industrial bits extracted from vintage synth boxes. Throughout these tangled webs, one can also find flickering beats falling by the wayside. “Deli Hal Csillagkep” is one such sonic creature, its cataclysmic highs and lows are shredded to no apparent end while the title track shuffles within incinerated percussion and skewed rhythms. “Nevtelen,” an eerie soundtrack to lost worlds, manages to paint a panoramic view of organized mayhem. Weaving basslines that burst from every corner, Femto Tudomány is a distracting yet somehow attractively coherent extended player.
At the end of it all, C. Mantle maintains composure even as these leftfield electronic manifests are in a constellation of their own.
Femto Tudomány is available on Acre.
