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It's Easy To Transport Yourself Back To The Genesis Of Electronic Music—the Avant-Garde Enclaves Of San Francisco And New York And Paris—where Tape Loops Became One More Instrument In Orchestras That Shunned No Particular Sound. As A Stunning Technological Leap The Tools Of Synthetic Noise Belonged Primarily To The Engineer-Composers Of The Period The Cages And Stockhausens. You'd Expect That As Those Tools Became Increasingly Available To The Masses That Electronic Music As A Genre Would Crossbreed With Rock Become Less Cerebral Trade Zen-Like Focus For Something Muscular. Some Techno Aside The Opposite Has Happened Cage's Anarchic Stages And Randomized Landscapes Are Closer To The Voluptuous Walls Of Sound A Brooklyn Noisenik Would Find Familiar And Solo Laptop Auteurs Like Alka Aka Bryan Michael Have Shifted Towards A Distinctly Melancholy Palette And Monkish Process That Feed Into The Most Neoclassical Temperament Imaginable. Such Are The Forces At Work On Principles Of Suffocation A Finely Tuned Pastel Symphony That Weds Dub-Lite Beats To Spacey Chiming Ambience. Turn "Un-Vaccina" Up All The Way And It's An Acidhead's Ideal Slap-Happy Club Mix Turn It All The Way Down And He'll Be Hypnotized Instead By The Gently Whirring Drones That Anchor It. Standout "Side Of A Mountain"'s Wah-Wahed Warm Synth Pads Slur Over Percolating Tin-Can Rat-A-Tatting That Matches The Poker-Faced Hyperactivity Of Aphex Twin's Propulsive Rhythms. Even As They Lull You Into A False Sense Of Consistency The Environments Are Morphing—sometimes To Microtonal Degrees—around A Secret Core. It's A Neat Bit Of Trickery And One That Betrays Alka's Allegiance To The Likes Of Philip Glass And Terry Riley Change And Stasis Speed And Slowness At Least To Musicians With A Certain Enviable Talent Are Not Mutually Exclusive. Neither Are Machines And A Sense Of The Pastoral. NOTE The Deployed LP Is Another Alka Who Now Goes By Alka_Rex Http //www.Last.Fm/music/Alka_Rex

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