Plan Oblique - (4:27) 91 BPM
Review: Gerald Donald doesn't release much material under his Der Zyklus guise - although he recently reissued the project's excellent Biometry album - but each time he does, it is delivered with a frosty, eerie underbelly. This characteristic is audible on "Perspective", where robotic snares provide the basis for bleak synth lines. "Plan Oblique" follows in a similar vein, with tougher, more functional drums but the same degree of menace. "Isometric Projection" sees him slow down the tempo for a stripped back, dead pace robot malfunction, while "Explosion Diagaram" provides a surprise at the end. Deeper, more expansive and less paranoid than the rest of the EP, it shows that there is a human pulse beating below the surface.