What’s been excavated on 00/10 are microscopic fractures of armchair electronics—sprinkles of chimes, pulses, acid, bass, clunks and textured synth noise falls from every edge.
[Bandcamp] A collection of untitled tracks has been packaged up from Southern California’s busy Architects + Heroes‘ main detailer Stephen Ruiz (aka Zygote). After having combed through several hours of DAT’s, thumb drives and dusty CD’s, this retrospective gleans upon sparks created over the last decade. Each sonic window has been wiped clean of its title in order to facilitate a seamless bundle of bits, bytes and brass tacks.
The Zygote project was initially conceived during the laptop techno days of Kit Clayton, Kid606, Cex and Sutekh (to name just a few) and is infused with these experimental roots. What’s been excavated on 00/10 are microscopic fractures of armchair electronics—sprinkles of chimes, pulses, acid, bass, clunks and textured synth noise falls from every edge. Not overtly constructed nor subtly manipulated, the introductory pieces slip by almost invisibly and are broken up via analog noodling which makes room for the larger sounding distortions of its closing entities.
Hinting at the early 00’s sound of imprints like Neo Ouija, City Centre Offices, Merck and n5MD, 00/10 carefully unfolds and spotlights a grip of genre-bending techniques. From twisted electronics to minute ambient slivers, Zygote exhibits skewed soundscapes—both minimized and maximized—that alters the inner consciousness. And while several others might have branched off from similar explorations of sound collage, Zygote seems content in re-sculpting his varied signature and unleashing them at a name your price download fee. These sonic architects running the A+H stable have kept a steady stream of releases afloat and 00/10 marks the hopeful reemergence of Zygote’s newer audio works.
oo/10 is available on Architects + Heroes. Download at Bandcamp.
