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- Date Released: October 5, 2009
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental
- Label: kranky / Iris
A luminous and sublime electronic tapestry
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We Say...
Tim Gray's alias, Ether Net, might sound coldly technological, conjuring visions of server farms and static-free chambers, but his debut album, 144 Pulsations of Light, is more in tune with a kind of techno-mysticism: the quest to find an electronic link between the brain and the music of the spheres. The results, as innumerable filaments of drone weave together, glowing from the friction, verge upon the sublime. This must be what it feels like inside a fiber-optic cable, the code blown open and turned to pure, buzzing presence as ecstatically as in William Gibson's Neuromancer. A dully thudding kick drum and a hint of a machine-driven backbeat underpin half the tracks here, establishing a link with the ambient techno of Wolfgang Voigt's Gas project, but like Gas, their pulse is all but smothered beneath rolling waves of synthesizers. Ethernet's drones are never formless; shifting chords and faint melodic figures create an unmistakable sense of musical movement. But the sound itself is what sucks you in. Unusually full, supple, physical, it comes on like a layer of mercury, coating every audible frequency in flickering, luminous intensity.
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Majestic |
5:59 |
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6:55 |
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Summer Insects |
7:26 |
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Vaporous |
8:37 |
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Seaside |
5:49 |
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Kansai |
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Temple |
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07 Total Tracks, 53:16 Total Length
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