Cercle Futur traverses a myriad of found sounds and decomposed echoes from IDM’s past, somehow morphing them into a coherent, futuristic audio collage from the outer edges.
Disjointed beats, bass, and baffling rhythms
Well, here’s a great way to kick off the new year—11 tracks of sublime creative fury with a release date of 1/22/22. Cercle Futur’s adeptness for precision sound design and spooky dynamics on Genèse are at a high level—twisting and pulling on a variety of disjointed beats, bass, and baffling rhythms. The artist notes influences such as Ben Milstein and Barry Hewitt as well as the ghosts of Roel Funcken and Phoenecia, and we couldn’t agree more.
The sonic architecture behind each track is utterly surreal. Take the crunchy soundscapes of the opening piece “Sud Magnétique,” or the thudding industrial slabs peppered throughout this maze of tangled low-end arches. Genèse takes several dips and dives through splintered electro (ref. “Télémaque en Enfer” and “Les Forêts de Titane”) to electroacoustic glitch mangling and otherworldly staccato acid synth scribbling (“Anthropocène”). Cercle Futur traverses a myriad of found sounds and decomposed echoes from IDM’s past, somehow morphing them into a coherent, futuristic audio collage from the outer edges. “Métaphysique du Désir,” in particular, is a dilapidated beauty—its slow motion groove slithers across the landscape with minimal, acrobatic pitter-patter beats muffled in the background as crumpled voices dither and fade away.
While Genèse is fused together by polyrhythmic tentacles, flickering melodic bubbles, and scattered noises, tracks like “Tropique du Sagittaire” blend everything into an arcane, multilayered concoction. A truly inventive and chaotically engaged album that isn’t afraid to cross-pollinate the darker edges of experimental electro-nics.
Genèse is available on Roulette Rekordz. [Bandcamp]
