Another well rounded extended player from one of the early IDM progenitors—managing to expand his musical scope just a little further, and a release that finally brings 2020 to its well-deserved closing chapter.
Wide open spaces converge w/ precisely orchestrated melodies
Georgi Marinov (aka Esem) returns to close out 2020 with a half dozen selection of emotively charged electronics, crunchy beatwork, and glitchy extracts that burrow deep into the recesses of his far-reaching production credits.
Wide open spaces converge with precisely orchestrated melodies on Chaos Crop—and this is what’s at the heart of this new EP. The focus on movement based rhythms that ebb and flow (ref. the title track) to signature deconstructed acid shifts, slick blips’n bleeps, and ambient undertones as noted on “Heterarchy,” has us immediately hooked. As these auditory pieces progress, one can find tranquilized, almost improvised layers on tracks like “σym” to outright atmospheric streams of emotion on the exquisite opening track “Sandglass.” It all comes together, as you would expect from such a professional sound sculptor, as “Braid 7 8 15” shimmies through fuzzy acrobatic synth notes that could run on forever as “Return” unearths ambient mysteries of the universe in its smooth traverse.
Another well rounded extended player from one of the early IDM progenitors—managing to expand his musical scope just a little further, and a release that finally brings 2020 to its well-deserved closing chapter.
Chaos Crop is available on Bandcamp.
