Title: Maze
Artist: Blanc Motif
Label: 1980 Lyfers
Cat Number: 80012
Genre: Techno
1: Untitled
2: Highway
3: Vinhas
4: Space Drifting
5: Drop Out
6: Efemero
7: Sereno
8: Huis
9: Sleep Pattern
This album has to be heard in the right frame of mind because it’s not always an easy listen. ‘Untitled’ being a case in point, as a curtain-opener it’s a tough act to follow. This is not a result of it being wonderful in every way, rather being launched into its abrupt abrasion could be off putting regarding what is to follow. Patience is required is such a context, but things do settle down, and there are moments of beauty and fragility among the industrial dronescape. ‘Sereno’ is the albums brightest star, but the melancholic ‘Huis’, has a similar effect, but at a completely different level of intensity. It’s a really interesting piece of work that gets better with every listen, and with its whiff of ‘Voice Of America’ era Cabaret Voltaire, has great depth and sophistication.
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