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Mastrapa :: Hollow Metric EP (Schematic) — [concise]

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Hollow Metric is an engaging and mind-bending experience with each piece intricately tethered to the other; taking us back a few years while seamlessly connecting to the present.

A masterclass in minimal, ethereal electro-nics

Mastrapa’s latest audio work, Hollow Metric, is a masterclass in minimal, ethereal electro-nics. The landscape opens with the saccharine hum of “Placebo,” its atmospheric swell and industrial glitch weaves layers of evolved ambient shapes. “Cement Solitude” continues the trajectory, drifting through spacious, micro-grooves that invite deep introspection. These sound waves pulse from a distant realm, where breakbeat structures like “Reprieve” intertwine in blissful complexity, only to be darkened by an emotive, atmospheric undercurrent. Finally, “Vessel Twelve” drifts by like a whispered dream, its downtempo rhythm and fuzzy bleeps echoing into nothingness as the EP carefully dissolves. In all, Hollow Metric is an engaging and mind-bending experience with each piece intricately tethered to the other; taking us back a few years while seamlessly connecting to the present.

Hollow Metric is available on Schematic. [Bandcamp]

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An independent electronic music enthusiast originally from Windsor, Ontario, located just across the border from Detroit, and now based in Southern California since 2001. Founder of Igloo Magazine, made possible by s://kimo music, one of the pioneering experimental electronic music mail-order services of the mid-late 1990s, and is also the co-creator of Digital::Nimbus Radio (formerly Audio::Nimbus). In addition, contributed articles to notable U.S.-based publications such as Grooves, e/i, and The Circular Cosmic Spot Magazines during the late 1990s and early 2000s, covering a diverse range of experimental electronics and the emerging genre of IDM music.