Tourbillon is a solid piece of IDM work destined to be held up as an example of great electronic music. Get it, feel it, hear it, love it, live it!
Get it, feel it, hear it, love it, live it!
If you ever wondered what it might sound like if you chucked a bunch of scrap metal into a Star Trek transporter along with a time machine, an MPC-1000 and a bunch of Timbaland tracks you might find the results sounds a lot like Tourbillon by Tim Koch. The title is either French for “whirlwind,” or a device used in watchmaking to improve the accuracy of a timepiece—both work well here.
“Estranger” has the most gorgeous flowing pads underpinned by phased and stuttering beats and percussion. “Disfugue” is funky like old school LFO, Bichi or Si Begg with harmonized beats, stuttering percussion and simple, plaintive melodies. “Dreitark” could be mistaken for Autechre but for the fact that it’s got a mostly linear beat, comprehensible arpeggiated melody, hazy reverb-drenched pads and a judicious use of glitchy modulation techniques. “Hankert” pings, pongs, blips and bloops all over the place like a barrel of robot monkeys while deep looming tones swoop slowly overhead like kites on Venus.
Though it’s a disliked moniker Tourbillon is a solid piece of IDM work destined to be held up as an example of great electronic music. Get it, feel it, hear it, love it, live it!
Tourbillon is available on Central Processing Unit February 26, 2021. [Bandcamp]
