Rummaging through sequencer-based extracts, the gravity that pulls The Secret Society together is its affinity towards controlled experimentation. This direction, while keeping a coherent flow from start to close, re-envisions genre-crossing windows of moody ambient, techno and industrial without losing its arcane focus.
[Release page] Lyonel Bauchet, while known to most as an established composer of music for television, film and radio, inhabits a unique space on the DiNDDL frontier with an assortment of modular activity both organic and digital encrusted.
Utilizing an array of microscopic strains of atmosphere, The Secret Society veers across peculiar terrain balancing Monolake-styled construction against a post-industrial backdrop of ambitious tonal activity. It’s baffling to learn that this prolific artist — now having amassed over 2,000 library music tracks — has decided to mold this album around the sounds produced by his Buchla 200e; thanks to label head Ian Boddy, listeners can dive right into TSS‘s sixty-minute analog cruise.
Rummaging through sequencer-based extracts, the gravity that pulls TSS together is its affinity towards controlled experimentation. This direction, while keeping a coherent flow from start to close, re-envisions genre-crossing windows of moody ambient, techno and industrial without losing its arcane focus. Perhaps best appreciated in the wilderness at sunrise — letting rays of light pierce through branches — Lyonel Bauchet has crafted a chilled progression of beats, bass and space. Each fabric of sound folds onto itself in a smattering of effective and reflective low-flying rhythms.
Based around the gorgeous Buchla 200e analog synthesizer, TSS‘s sound is a definitive foray into multi-faceted soundtrack worlds.
The Secret Society is out on DiNDDL. [Release page]
