Balancing a curiosity for experimental sound design wrapped around minimal color tones, Wave Exploit Lens challenges the ears with its fuzzy electrical contours and maintains composure from its bumpy start to graceful end.
[Release page] In our attempt to decipher the code buried in Proqxis‘ database of randomized digital flux featured on Parallax Utopia (March 2011), we were left in a maze of distorted sonic shapes. Described as “an intensely cerebral album, full of cryptic beats and arcane melodies, abruptly issuing its message in a perplexing dialect“—much of this sentiment remains the same on Wave Exploit Lens. Also quoting the same review, “…the fact that the album sounds at times like a haphazard stir-fry of Confield ideas doesn’t mean beauty can’t be salvaged from it.” These two of angles of analysis still gravitate around Proqxis’ latest opus on this thrifty-five minute excursion for Buried In Time.
Bending the mechanics of processed electrical noise, video-game soundtracks and extraterrestrial blips, each track breaks through an onslaught of tangled sounds as it reaches for some sort of consistency. The breakaway epic (“Branch Tangent”)—pushing seventeen minutes—distills manipulated, crumpled and dislocated rhythmic patterns as fissures emerge from the undercurrent. “Solar Attempt” grasps for similar footing in its dysfunctional void of beauty. “Mnymosnic” treads a minimal path of leftfield crackles, whirs and clunks delivered around synaptic pulses of light. Perhaps the finest of the lot takes shape on “Quantum Resort,” a collaboration with Logreybeam. This sphere of cohesive downtempo electro feels slightly out of place amongst its neighboring tethered wires.
In the end what remains on this extended player is an affinity for unusual effects hidden in Proqxis’ musical arsenal. Balancing a curiosity for experimental sound design wrapped around minimal color tones, Wave Exploit Lens challenges the ears with its fuzzy electrical contours and maintains composure from its bumpy start to graceful end.
Wave Exploit Lens is available on Buried In Time. [Release page]
