The musical pieces are largely built on obsessional, flexible and fluidistic loops which generate a psy-trance like effect on the listener, it is immersive, gloomy, isolationist in every sense of the terms, always eerily hypnotic and minimal at the same time.
Downtempo, chilled-out minimalist electronica and diverse concrete then digital sound manipulations
An active sound artist but also label owner Sven Laux is one busy man. With this new release he welcomes a second CD effort by Matthias Rahn, an eclectic sound producer whose musical range oscillates between downtempo, chilled-out minimalist electronica and diverse concrete then digital sound manipulations. This album appears to be a collection of rare tracks archived through the years and which find now a new breath, exhumed. The musical pieces are largely built on obsessional, flexible and fluidistic loops which generate a psy-trance like effect on the listener, it is immersive, gloomy, isolationist in every sense of the terms, always eerily hypnotic and minimal at the same time. These tripped out ambient miniatures admit cyber-like pulses and beat laden interferences that give a cold icy groovy feeling to the ensemble. Post-techno loops and layered textures that listeners of IDM music won’t be disappointed by. The musical purposes questions our perception of time, memory, space and movement like a wakeful dream. A precise, concise and kinetic post-ambient release that operates a cross between abundant, effective thrilling looped pieces by The Orb, Yagya, and Wolfgang Voidt.
The Lost Archives is available on Seasides on Postcards. [Bandcamp]
