Parallel Series 7 - LaFontaine/Orbe (Mote-Evolver)

 

Title: Parallel Series 7

Artist: LaFontaine/Orbe

Label: Mote-Evolver

Cat Number: MOTE061

Genre: Techno

1: 3015 – LaFontaine

2: Kokkur – LaFontaine

3: 9DVR – Orbe

4: Trimax – Orbe

The ‘Parallel Series’ on Luke Slater’s Mote-Evolver is a split release run which on this release hosts LaFontaine and Orbe, aka Fernando Sanz. Orbe’s compositions are very much of the industrial trance variety, and sound a lot like what was coming out on Prologue around a decade ago, all kick and grain. Not bad and testament to how influential Prologue has been. LaFontaine, who sounds like French Football’s centre of excellence, has an interesting, off-kilter track with ‘Kokkur’, but ‘3015’ grates. It’s dissonance doesn’t work for me, and it ends up sounding overdone. A bit too scooped neck black tee shirt innit.