Boris Bunnik – the man behind Conforce – makes music that enables the listener to escape the daily grind, and this particular listener found ‘Presentism’ the ideal soundtrack to the morning commute. It has a spacious quality that allows the mind to zone out, but at the same time Bunnik does a really good job of keeping the rhythms tight and interesting. ‘Blue Note’ is perhaps the best example of this, with rolling drums and a lovely, wide open riff that rises through the texture. ‘Realtime’ shows that Bunnik can also do dark and deep really well, and the mysterious far off noises of ‘Time Space Continuum’ give pure ambience on headphones and widescreen alike. That’s two very fine down tempo albums in a month from Delsin, after John Beltran’s ‘Espais’ – but both are living proof of the variety and invention still at work in the ambient sphere.
