Review: Ex-Noisia member Thys presents the latest release on his very own Vision Recordings titled Shoulder To Shoulder. It certainly is a diverse affair, where the Groningen-based veteran ventures into the grey area on the half-time darkness of "I Am A Strange Loop" before going for a proper old school junglist flavour on "Go Again" with Nicholas Thayer. Collaborations prove key on this release, as heard on the wonky bass groove of "Sun" with Nikki Nair & DJ ADHD and the UK 2-step influence of "Break Through" while "Lights Down Low" is a straight up techno banger.
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.
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