Mindbuffer continues to prove that sound design can go on various tangents and still remain quite engaged.
Mindbuffer does for Enig’matik what Autechre does for Warp—baffle the brain with sub-atomic bass crunching via epic stretches of fractured ambient versus digital distortion. For the fourth chapter in the PanFM series, chopped and decomposed electronics is still at the forefront of the “2013 Mix” as a contagious hand drum melody kicks it off. “Gatz Graf“-era electronics certainly comes to mind during the elongated minutes of the “2013 Mix” while pure audio abstraction reaches ultimate capacity. “Digital Silhouette” trails through drill’n bass tied to atmospheric dosages of calm amidst a plundering of glitched tentacles as Anemone takes the track into dub terrain where flickering drums and skittering high-hats race by at high velocity. The title track closes with its younger twin—the “2011 Mix” which flows in much the same direction as 2013, albeit at a more gradual pace—its spastic yet somehow controlled percussion deforms into purely obliterated rhythms and proves again that sound design can go on various tangents and still remain quite engaged.
PanFM: Chapter 4 is available on Enig’matik. [Release page]
