| Duo from Lawrence, Kansas. While I’m sure inflatable people at all the posh clubs are gonna ask to check the iD first, still please don’t sleep on the Sleeper. He sets up well-camoflauged beat-traps like he’s channeling SeeFeel, his drum machinery has got a dark reeling ride to it. Listen to it trip and stagger on “Entropy.” His production is very akin to the old curtains-closed-tight-in-the-middle-of-the-day mystery that used to be prescribed on KFJC’s Sonic Pharmacy. But the “Chemical Burn” delivered under the counter here is definitely its own trip. Ironically, “Hungry Ghost” is the least spectral of the audio holodecks Sleeper conjures up. On the MiC, iD delivers anger and disapproval along abstract lines that might not connect on the visceral plane, but actually run perfectly parallel to the hypnagogic-a-gogo Sleeper has assembled. Often times iD’s verses get reverbed or redoubled to add to the headtrip, the sound of his voice and the counter-percussion it adds is crucial to the effect here. Whoever selected the few spoken samples from the intro “Idea” on in did a nice job as well, they often add a trace of humor to some otherwise austere lyrics that seem to go down a philosophical rabbit hole chasing the shadow of a self-flagellating Stoic. Not without self-awareness though as “Vague” indicates. Experi-meant-all. - KFJC |
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