Monday, March 16, 2020

686.719 - Syrte (Science Cult)



Title: 686.719
Artist: Syrte
Label: Science Cult
Cat Number: SCAS1
Genre: Electro

A1: Obedience Paradox
A2: Simulation Assimilation
B1: Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions
B2: Mechanical Matriarch
B3: 1815350400

When ‘Storm Dennis’, (or should I say rebranded winter), is battering a path to your door, there’s nothing better to do than sit in the comfort of your own home listening to electro. And, as you look out across the rain-sodden wasteland in which you live, wandering if anyone else out there is lucky enough to have a similarly amazing soundtrack to their life. This is a particularly hard-hitting collection of industrial, sci-fi tinged robo funk. The beats are crisp and clean, the vocoders pipecleaned, and mandatory disembodied voices carefully picked. This is a great release, with the first four tracks aggressively, but not crassly, making their presence felt in a collage of organised chaos. The best is saved for last though, as ‘1815350400’ leverages the turmoil to a invoke a more emotive sense of spectacle.

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