Review: Music for the strong-willed and not faint hearted, this Ithaca EP by Thys (aka Noisia) and Amon Tobin takes a listener through a spectral nether region of pastoral ambience and time-splitting cosmology. As if synths themselves, breathy chants of human chorals add a human touch to the vast and glacial atmospheres of the record, coming through at large in "Badlands", "Somewhere Else" and "Departure", with "Ithaca" itself shining in searing rays of synthesis layered to oblivion. Theatrical bass lines and deconstructed drums patterns add further narrative to the EP through their punctuation and offering of respite from its most dramatic moments, as heard in "Turning Point", with the complete package something like a soundtrack to a film documenting the edges of time, space and reality itself.
Review: Fans of A/V pioneer Amon Tobin were thrilled when he broke a three-year silence with an exclusive Record Store Day release of Dark Jovian last month. However not everyone was able to get their hands on the luxuriantly packed double vinyl set, so now a digital version has surfaced to keep everybody happy. It's a stunning five-track cosmic soundtrack inspired by Tobin's obsession with space exploration movies and an attempt 'to interpret a sense of scale, like moving towards impossibly giant objects and planets turning'. Also included are haunting reworks by Lee Gamble, Logos and Eprom!
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