Gec Alsthom 1996 is an emotive tug and pull, the glitch elements stretched to maximum tension while friendly cohorts offer their deconstructed renditions.
Flint Kids (aka Danny Nolan) flexes and contorts his latest extended player with distilled sonic whiplash. Always known to meld a series of leftfield sound effects (formerly the duo of Danny Nolan and David Smith), the title track unearths glitch infused passageways—its roots buried several feet below the soil, there’s an emotive, slithering bass strand that warps the sound field. Graham Massey’s remix dips into funkier realms, capturing the bass beat and tossing it into an echo chamber. Roel Funcken takes the title track to the stratosphere with rugged, rolling bass thuds flickering above rhythmic drones, tones, and a sizzling undercurrent. The Leila mix is a noisier industrial piece—its crumbling darker shuffle is hypnotic, just as it begins to weave its way through the subconscious like a lava flow etching the landscape. “Knife” is a standalone piece with wide open spaces, its scattered percussion and liquid bass line rattle the senses with a dark, foreboding energy. As a result Gec Alsthom 1996 is an emotive tug and pull, the glitch elements stretched to maximum tension, while friendly cohorts offer their deconstructed renditions.
Gec Alsthom 1996 is available on Kaometry.
