LD-50 Review

Michael Weicker's solo project shakes the ground with his second album, Music from.. a Plastique Environ, moving into oldschool Zen Paradox sound. Sticky ambient soundscapes, as if we were listening to a feline savant's brain high on acid from beside a sound system, the rhythm's pounding hard, falling apart sometimes. A huge bonus is the use of distorted speech samples (yeah, because I love them), disappearing, appearing and disappearing again in a slow hypnosis pattern. Subterranean rhythmic electro-techno, all tracks are the same but different at the same time. A strong for is the blending of several styles, it's as if I were listening to ambient, space-techno and three-note alien love songs simultaneously. Scent of Mystic Paths is like a newer version of Jarre's Rendez-vous raindrop depressions. My favourite is Embodiment of Fiction, a B-side Scan X hearalike, hardtechno, rushing in a fractal tunnel with 120mph, remember X-Mix, no shit, hearing something like this in the scene in 2003, unbelievable! Palisade features our feline savant stuck in a hypercube covering Love Cats in a desperate version. A masterpiece amongst albums. As our brother I would say, playing it while going to empty beaches, a tunnel comes, total darkness, only the far-off lamps give you a wicked sense of time, then the light comes again, suddenly there's silence in the car, only the awe-struck "fuck me"s tell you that an angel has flown away high above.

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