Alka

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Blueberry 03:14 Tools
I Am a Wreck 03:45 Tools
Collocation 03:09 Tools
Immolated 03:23 Tools
When You Abandon Your Youth 04:01 Tools
Lucent 03:27 Tools
Israel 04:28 Tools
Dayone 04:58 Tools
Sky, Face Down 04:05 Tools
What Will Become of Your High Existence? 03:48 Tools
Solip 04:33 Tools
Furtive 05:06 Tools
Separate 04:03 Tools
Tesla 04:05 Tools
Digging a Hole 04:27 Tools
Decompose 04:00 Tools
I Fell Down a Very Long Well 03:47 Tools
Bâtards Suprêmes 02:59 Tools
A Modest Collection of Lint 02:23 Tools
Side of a Mountain 03:25 Tools
La vie par les deux bouts 03:55 Tools
Abandon 03:50 Tools
Alpha Pilos 03:42 Tools
Un-Vaccina 04:06 Tools
Subset Sixteen 06:01 Tools
The Clouds Are Quite Wispy 04:13 Tools
Pure-People 03:42 Tools
Initial Signal 03:55 Tools
Pas la peine de dire adieu 04:43 Tools
Salt Lake 07:29 Tools
Mifa 04:28 Tools
JR 500 08:08 Tools
D'un amour à l'autre 01:30 Tools
Separate (Snow) [At Work] V3 06:25 Tools
Uart 07:43 Tools
Tu m'aimes mal 01:30 Tools
Cargo Area C 03:23 Tools
La première fois 01:30 Tools
Qui je suis 01:30 Tools
Broscam Mangrows 08:07 Tools
I Am A Wreck (Gate Zero Reconstruction) 03:51 Tools
Je m'en vais 01:30 Tools
Parallel Fold 09:23 Tools
Cargo Area D 05:22 Tools
At Dusk I See Lights 05:22 Tools
Te satisfaire 01:30 Tools
Angar 4 00:00 Tools
What Will Become of Yur High Existence [City Rain Remix] 03:46 Tools
Les gens bien élevés 01:46 Tools
Gema 08:29 Tools
Besoin d'autre chose 03:31 Tools
La main dans le sac 04:16 Tools
Cont-Figure 00:00 Tools
Collocation [Specta Ciera Remix] 04:35 Tools
fertive 04:35 Tools
Kling 04:38 Tools
Jr 500 (John Tejada Remix) 05:40 Tools
When You Abandon Your Youth - Drexon Field Remix 04:38 Tools
Interrupt structure 03:57 Tools
Immolated (Zoon van snooK Remix) 03:04 Tools
Bâtards suprêmes (Lafayette remix) 05:31 Tools
Israel (Idhren Remake) 05:27 Tools
Your Wayward Stare 03:55 Tools
Cont - Figure 06:27 Tools
When You Abandon Your Youth (Drexon Field Remix) 04:38 Tools
Angar4 08:40 Tools
Lucent (Axiotronic Remix) 05:17 Tools
Collocation (Specta Ciera Remix) 04:35 Tools
I Am A Wreck (Ruxpin Remix) 04:10 Tools
What Will Become of Your High Existence? (City Rain Remix) 03:46 Tools
diode malfunktion 05:05 Tools
Piece 04:04 Tools
Immolated - Zoon van snooK Remix 04:04 Tools
Melancholy Lasts 04:04 Tools
Betablockers 04:04 Tools
sOMn ambulance 05:10 Tools
Separate - Snow [At Work] 06:26 Tools
mifa (john tejada remix) 05:10 Tools
A Field Where No One Can See You 05:10 Tools
Israel - Idhren Remake 05:27 Tools
Thought You Knew How to Drown 09:12 Tools
Collusion 05:18 Tools
I See Through Night 09:12 Tools
Sofantastick 05:28 Tools
Truncate (Vince Clarke Remix) 03:52 Tools
Over Hills And Vales 03:52 Tools
Lucent - Axiotronic Remix 05:18 Tools
Questlore 03:52 Tools
Batards supemes (Lafayette Remix) 05:28 Tools
Truncate 03:52 Tools
Cooperate 03:52 Tools
Wrong Side Up 03:52 Tools
I Am A Wreck - Gate Zero Reconstruction 03:52 Tools
We Are Free Forms 03:52 Tools
Under Waves and Seas 03:52 Tools
Separate (Kieron James Jandia Remix) 04:36 Tools
contrapuntal 03:52 Tools
Separate (Snow [At Work]) 04:10 Tools
I Am A Wreck - Ruxpin Remix 04:10 Tools
What Will Become of Your High Existence? - City Rain Remix 03:46 Tools
Collocation - Specta Ciera Remix 04:36 Tools
(As it Was) 04:10 Tools
Separate (Snow - At Work) 06:25 Tools
Wrong Side Up (Mathieu Gendreau Remix) 06:25 Tools
cont figure 06:24 Tools
Multiple 08:07 Tools
tunneling 05:01 Tools
bios 08:49 Tools
Separate - Kieron James Jandia Remix 06:15 Tools
Left (Alka Remix) 06:15 Tools
Separate (Kieron James Jandia Remix) 06:14 Tools
03 - Jr 500 00:00 Tools
Pump The Beat (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
stacker 08:07 Tools
remote login 08:29 Tools
encapsulation 05:32 Tools
What Will Become Of Your High Existence? (Mick Chillage Ghostly Echoes) 08:07 Tools
What Will Become of Your High Existence - Mick Chillage Ghostly Echoes Remix 12:04 Tools
I Am A Wreck (GateZero ReConstruction) 08:07 Tools
Nou Sé Akiyo (feat. Omeka) 08:07 Tools
What Will Become of Your High Existence (Mick Chillage Ghostly Echoes Remix) 00:00 Tools
jr500 05:01 Tools
default getaway 05:01 Tools
08 - Broscam Mangrows 00:00 Tools
Pump The Beat - Original mix 00:00 Tools
Sky Face Down 00:00 Tools
D'un amour a l'autre 00:00 Tools
I Thought You Knew How To Drown 05:01 Tools
What Will Become Of Your High 05:01 Tools
La vie par les 2 bouts 00:00 Tools
Saanwariya Saanwariya 00:00 Tools
Lazi me 00:00 Tools
Happy Karma Christmas 00:00 Tools
What Will Become Of Your High Existence? (Mick Chillage Ghostly Echoes Remix) 12:01 Tools
Carolija 12:01 Tools
saltlake 12:01 Tools
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It's easy to transport yourself back to the genesis of electronic music—the avant-garde enclaves of San Francisco and New York and Paris—where tape loops became one more instrument in orchestras that shunned no particular sound. As a stunning technological leap, the tools of synthetic noise belonged primarily to the engineer-composers of the period, the Cages and Stockhausens. You'd expect that as those tools became increasingly available to the masses, that electronic music as a genre would crossbreed with rock, become less cerebral, trade Zen-like focus for something muscular. Some techno aside, the opposite has happened: Cage's anarchic stages and randomized landscapes are closer to the voluptuous walls of sound a Brooklyn noisenik would find familiar, and solo laptop auteurs like Alka (aka Bryan Michael) have shifted towards a distinctly melancholy palette and monkish process that feed into the most neoclassical temperament imaginable. Such are the forces at work on Principles of Suffocation, a finely tuned pastel symphony that weds dub-lite beats to spacey, chiming ambience. Turn "Un-Vaccina" up all the way, and it's an acidhead's ideal slap-happy club mix; turn it all the way down, and he'll be hypnotized instead by the gently whirring drones that anchor it. Standout "Side Of A Mountain"'s wah-wahed warm synth pads slur over percolating tin-can rat-a-tatting that matches the poker-faced hyperactivity of Aphex Twin's propulsive rhythms. Even as they lull you into a false sense of consistency, the environments are morphing—sometimes to microtonal degrees—around a secret core. It's a neat bit of trickery, and one that betrays Alka's allegiance to the likes of Philip Glass and Terry Riley: change and stasis, speed and slowness, at least to musicians with a certain enviable talent, are not mutually exclusive. Neither are machines and a sense of the pastoral. NOTE: the Deployed LP is another alka who now goes by: alka_rex: http://www.last.fm/music/Alka_Rex Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.