| When “We Saw Orion” played, I felt like I was floating through a futuristic Egyptian bazaar. This masterfully manic opener sets the standard high for another stellar release from Mush. Whether you’re into the IDM / Minimal House of Hefty Records and cats like Boards Of Canada and Boom Bip, more of the cacophonic Richard Devine or Amon Tobin persuasion or even a junky for the analogue synth cinematics of El-P, EPs and Rarities is a must have for any fan of electronic music. Fisk Industries does a remarkable job of walking the razor wire line between headache and boring while flirting with neither. Some electronic records just sound like intellectual masturbation, noise that outsiders struggle to make sense of before they are ultimately left confused and dejected. Others tread on drug use and exposed chests. The dreaded unntz unntz of techno is probably responsible for more cases of temporary insanity than Judas Priest, PCP and the show Cheaters combined. Thankfully, Fisk knows how to balance his sonic palette. By maintaining beat pattern consistency on noisier joints like “Can’t Breathe” and “70’s Jets,” or by employing more organic sounding melodies and samples when his crunchy drums go a little bananas, see “Largo Winch,” he keeps his listeners tethered to the track through the tastefully executed juxtaposition of sound. When such intelligent music is made to feel so natural it’s just a beautiful thing. - Okayplayer |
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