
Eighteen tracks of steady-beat techno, leaning into downtempo pacing while layering touches in all over the place. Bass commands most of the songs, while the higher-pitched inclusions tend to be dragged over the top in fragile-sounding ways. The points of acceleration that do crop up feel, for the most part, like they’re just dressing on the slow-moving bass bump loops, which lends a sense of hard separation between the two ends. There’s plenty of technical skill and careful programming on display, but very few of the songs feel like they actually do much of anything beyond following the loops through some light ramping. A nice snapshot of electronic groups just under the mainstream radar at the time of its release, and some generally chill beat atmospheres, but not much more than that.
