C Mantle :: The Trials of Herta Kosinsky EP (Gabber Noir)

A blisteringly wild ride through turbulent electronic mayhem that is saturated with deformed electro strands.

Broken electro formations, twisted sonic peripheral, and cold rhythmic breaks

C Mantle (aka Christopher Mantle and Acre Recordings label operator) opens an account with New York-based Gabber Noir. This time around the Edinburgh-based artist provides a slightly different trajectory of abstract electronics. Within 20 minutes and three tracks, C Mantle’s usual exploratory soundscapes and modular acrobatics are elevated by broken electro formations, twisted sonic peripheral, and cold rhythmic breaks. Have a listen to “Hinxton” as a prime example where all the proverbial bells and whistles swirl in a beat and vocoder infested blender, its low end ruggedness carrying it through Gescom styled mechanisms. On “Liepaja,” C Mantle delves into robust and hypnotic structures that crack, creak, and crunch their way through abandoned echo chambers. “Trinity” closes with a more fractured electro tinge—its swirling glitch and syncopated groove floats through the outer levels of our atmosphere, providing the listener a technoid and highly dense sound field that doesn’t let up. A blisteringly wild ride through turbulent electronic mayhem that is saturated with deformed electro strands.

The Trials of Herta Kosinsky is available on Gabber Noir. [Bandcamp]