Radish Square hits like a surge of fractured memory—®adår bending breakbeat grit and IDM drift into nine tense, flickering cuts that feel constantly on the verge of collapse.
Grown from deeply embedded roots
Such sharply distilled braindance fragments surge into view through Radish Square, ®adår’s latest outing for Xephem. Nine cuts, grown from deeply embedded roots, smear boundaries between breakbeat heritage and IDM drift, folding past into present. “Stint” sparks with a fluttering pulse, glitch scatter, and bright tonal bursts, as fractured rhythms weave through a maze of blips and tangled dial signals.
Momentum builds as melodic, techno-leaning fractures spill outward—“Scandi” and “Lypranide” scraping distant edges of pixel-driven propulsion—while “Shimr,” channeling an Aphex-like spirit, splinters rhythm into countless shards that invite endless return. A sense of pressure runs throughout, as if each beat hovers on the brink of collapse.
Listeners attuned to Velum Break and MBM will recognize brittle crunch within these passages, especially in “Micro M4-6 [Take 2],” which unfolds in slowed metamorphosis, merging mechanical electro and technoid force with an almost stratospheric analog thread. It stands as a defining moment, before “Dwyran” closes in a worn, descending breakbeat layer that dissolves into clip-hop fringes, drifting just ahead of its own weight.
Radish Square is available on Xephem. [Bandcamp]
