Dark, brooding, and yet created with an ear for fractured rhythms and auditory purpose, Percival’s Vizion extended player is a welcomed distraction from the (usual) IDM flutter.
Dark, brooding, and yet created with an ear for fractured rhythms and auditory purpose, Percival’s Vizion extended player is a welcomed distraction from the (usual) IDM flutter. Here we see five tracks maneuver through isolated dub extracts (ie. “Poly 102”), and loosely knit echoes (ie. “Algorithm”). Broken beats splatter about thinned melodic streams as if Monolake was navigating the controls while partially asleep. That is not to say that the Detroit-based producer is lacking any musical vigor, in fact, it’s quite the opposite. These distilled ambient-electronic pieces segue through late-night corridors with a sense of curiosity and bewilderment. “Weightless” flips the equation to another level, its gauzy downtempo breeze drifts in a calm trajectory. The title track elicits otherworldly, soundtrack-driven synthesized bliss—a mechanical flurry of tiny noises vie to make their way through the fog, just as “5Track” delivers a futuristic technoid stream of subconsciousness. In all, Percival captures what most musicians have a hard time delivering in a full-length album—creating moving sonic structures that feed off themselves via a microcosm of electronic bits and pieces. An impacting and inquisitive stretch of sounds that goes the distance.
Vizion is available on Detroit Underground. [Video & cover art by Esstro9]
