It’s great when an album comes along which pushes electronic music several notches beyond the expected and creates a world of its own. Forn the last five years Ezekiel Honig has been creating EPs, remixes and albums – most recently 2006’s Scattered Practices on Microcosm – while spending the last two building up his Anticipate label. Now he’s ready to release his first album on his own imprint and it’s something of an electronic masterpiece. There’s a lot of moulding, editing and tweaking of the sounds and instruments he uses, intricately working them into new soundscapes which, apart from muted beats, barely resemble even the new strains of minimal techno which have been coming out of Germany like a meteor shower this year; tracks like piano excursion ‘Displacement’, deep-droning ‘Broken Marching Band’ or watery ambience of ‘Past Tense Kitchen Movement’ are nearer to the avant garde. ‘Porchside Economics’ mutates a guitar over the creaking shadow-groove, an approach also used with the slow-mo click-pulse of ‘A Brief Visual Pattern’ and its dark cloud melody rolls. Mysterious and fascinating, this is well worth a dip for those looking for something a little different or challenging.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
