Carnivorous beats.
With a frontal assault, the new Sub.Session Duo.Tone compilation cracks straight through 2004 and beyond.
Each of the disc’s 26 tracks reveal atmospheric flashpoints and metallic operas of the mind with rugged digital expansions. The rolling thunder of Empusae’s “La Puissance” cracks the opening (dirty, dirty beats!), and then we never looks back. A cerebral pool of shadows is ever persistent, which doesn’t give the listener a vision of sugarplums dancing though their heads; instead, ancient European factories at midnight can be seen while the machinery envelops you at every turn.
Ch district’s “0.25” is a splintered red heart of poetic motion, perhaps the undercurrent of destination’s beyond, giving this piece its meaning. With Dither’s “D 64,” the grey sky expands in madness and fragile chaos –recommended listening in the dark. At the halfway point on disc one we get a break with Tekniq’s “Sunrise” apply titled after the relentless midnight factory panoramic, this is your last rest-stop.
Disc two grinds us forward with a textured current, and along the journey we encounter Manufactura’s “Dance of Blood,” remixed by Knife In Your Hands, which should have be renamed G. E.: We Bring Good Things to Bio-Electric Current. The disc ends with P.A.L.’s “Hypnosis;” a mind trip in its own right.
Duo.Tone is a journey though the metallic spider webs of the mind; don’t be afraid to walk through.
Duo.Tone is OUT NOW on Sub.Session (Canada).
