Metamatics :: Instamatic (XTT)

Instamatic opens an engaged musical channel filled with positive frequency bursts and head nodding rhythmic activity that will hopefully reveal further Metamatics material.

Lee Anthony Norris‘ vast catalog has taken many twists and turns, venturing through all facets of electronic music as well as expansive ambient / atmospheric interludes along the way. He’s collaborated with many musicians across the planet and created a discog so in-depth that its tentacles have birthed new life into an otherwise boundless musical landscape. Here we have Instamatic, a return to original form and an album fans have waited over nine years to consume via Norris’ Metamatics moniker.

The wait behind us now, Instamatic reveals bits and bobs, blips and bleeps and a rhythmic churn as featured on the opening “Neon Future Blue.” Nine tracks packed without filler, there are a few electro stabs as featured on “Metamatix,” glitchy and abstract enough for any late night dance floor with a catchy “Metamatix” vocal blurb closing out its final minutes. Elsewhere you’ll find emotive electrical details, punchy low-end thumps and pulsing post-ambient weaves. Always one to create unique percussive moments, haunted vocal abstracts and a magnetic audio collage (ref. “Ghinel,”) Metamatics focuses his efforts on unveiling developed melodic synths and nostalgic tones. Upbeat and crafted with a polished perspective, three of the nine tracks reference the future, reflected and refocused to embed themselves in the deep recesses of our memory banks. But just as Instamatic pushes through a harmonic sound kaleidoscope, there are calming as well as crunchy audible shapes that create for a welcomed return. Punchy and expressive terrestrial patches of head-bobbing electronics (ref. “Auto Van Trix”) form a smorgasbord of mechanical elements flowing in unison from start to end.

Instamatic opens an engaged musical channel filled with positive frequency bursts and head nodding rhythmic activity that will hopefully reveal further Metamatics material.

Limitation to 150 glass mastered CD’s and 100 vinyl, Instamatic is available on Norris’ own XTT. [Bandcamp]