As Embers dips and dives through techno’s outer realms, calmer layers also allow it all to fade into oblivion.
Fidgety electronic soundscapes
Fidgety electronic soundscapes, distorted beatwork, and sizzling acid abounds on Embers with the forward-thinking leftfield electro imprint Woodwork. Ghoti aligns with the imprints’ danceable bits, yet sets a different path to get there. The title track maintains a minimal techno structure yet punctuates the mood with loosened strands tying it together—broken dub fields coalesce with thudding beats and subdued notes that it’s hard to break away from the simplicity on display. Elsewhere, Ghoti enables sound design fractures as evidenced on “Aneracam,” a bustling collection of stretched drum patterns and data bursts as “Levin” treads through fleeting harmonic shifts and punchy percussion. Ghoti’s sense of space, timing, and laid back electronics reveals that there’s more behind the evolving chords than meets the ear—”tfhoruere” takes us to uncharted worlds in the span of nine developing minutes of cascading and wandering bliss. You’ll find glitchy technoid mechanics on “bile” to bending metallic shards on “phractyl”—both distortedly scrumptious. As Embers dips and dives through techno’s outer realms, calmer layers also allow it all to fade into oblivion.
Embers is available on Woodwork. [Bandcamp]
