It’s basically all here and out in the open—an album that passes through just about every genre without losing its stimulating vision. Drum’n bass mingles with atmospheric glitch, vocal snippets frolic among crisp electrons and what’s left is an album that simply defies categorization.
[Release page] Press releases usually offer decent media tools to navigate new projects and inspire editorial ideas. Yes, they can be useful in order to give authors background information, unique bits of detail and audio-visual splashes as guidance. In this case we’ve decided to take the music at face value, sidestep any press, and interpolate the sheer gravity of Rays on its own (as all titles should be consumed, really). Creating extraterrestrial electronics is Coppe’ + Nikakoi’s strong point and their extensive discography further amplifies this visual soundscape. Interspersed and lightly brushed vocals are evenly spread amongst thirteen refined pieces of skewed rhythm boxes.
Leftfield extracts of torched data are balanced with subtle bass drops—”Cell” is a prime example—as lush downtempo rides the midnight subway on tracks like “Dream” and “Purple Cheese 4U!” Elsewhere fragmented click-pop and tangled melody crunching prevails on tracks like “Meat” and “Yogurt: Remix.” The windswept aura of the title track elevates its counterparts and firmly plants itself into the subconscious like a subliminal message.
It’s basically all here and out in the open—an album that passes through just about every genre without losing its stimulating vision. Drum’n bass mingles with atmospheric glitch, vocal snippets frolic among crisp electrons and what’s left is an album that simply defies categorization.
So as the end-user absorbs all that is experimentally sublime on Rays, the general media might do better to listen to an albums strengths rather than just read about it via scripts. In the case of this successful collaboration both Coppe’ and Nikakoi deserve props for taking a step into unfamiliar terrain with their smorgasbord of electrical activity.
Rays is available on Mango + Sweetrice. Buy at M+S, Bleep or Amazon.
Single available on Bleep.com 4/9
General release 4/16
Album and boxset 4/23
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