Spykes - Delta Rain Dance (Delta Rain Dance)

Title: Spykes

Artist: Delta Rain Dance

Label: Delta Rain Dance

Cat Number: DELTA3

Genre: Ambient

1: Light box

2: Penta AMB

3: 2 Stones 6 Foot

4: Zooooom

5: A Simple Individual

6: Penta (Bong Mix)

7: Offshore

8: Ladder

9: 1987 (CD Mix)

10: Ghost

11: I.D.E.S.

From what I have been able to discover, Delta Rain Dance is Glenn Astro, (I could be wrong, but there is a reference to this on his Twitter feed.) Whoever is behind this collection, it could come in very handy during this period of enforced isolation in part because of its potential calming influence. Each composition feels like a slight variation of the one before. There are minor inflections on a foundation of organic sounding electronica which means that it feels like you are listening to a more sophisticated Buddha Machine which evokes a lush, tropical ambience. Beats become more prescient as the album is experienced, the intensity building as the end becomes nigh which all adds up to a confrontationally tranquil experience.