Title: Ionize
Artist: Prequel Tapes & dBridge
Label: Midnight Shift
Cat Number: MNSX024
Genre: Electronic Confluence
A1: Divisible Cause
A2: Stray Thrills
B1: Pleasure Systems
B2: Mindless
Another interesting release from Midnight Shift who continue to set the controls to the heart of electronic rhythm’s g spot; the four cuts here each offering a different slant on syncopation and implicitly occupying the middle of asythetic audio Venn Diagram. None of these tracks weigh in at more than just over five minutes, which is a pity as they’ve each got legs and off kilter originality. ‘Stray Thrills’ is the heaviest tune here, but it simultaneously manages to feel weightless. ‘Divisible Cause’ is a scatty beat which offers the illusion of disembodiment. ‘Pleasure Systems’ is brittle break beats which crackle and flame, and ‘Mindless’ is an urgent, neurotic, dub – infused parallax. What brings all of these tracks together though, is an array of subtly used effects that distort the trajectory of the individual components and artfully reassembles them before the listener can come to terms with the change.
