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21407260 | Play | Blueberry | 03:14 Tools | |
21407259 | Play | I Am a Wreck | 03:45 Tools | |
21407262 | Play | Collocation | 03:09 Tools | |
21407266 | Play | Immolated | 03:23 Tools | |
21407264 | Play | When You Abandon Your Youth | 04:01 Tools | |
21407265 | Play | Lucent | 03:27 Tools | |
21407263 | Play | Israel | 04:28 Tools | |
21407271 | Play | Dayone | 04:58 Tools | |
21407270 | Play | Sky, Face Down | 04:05 Tools | |
21407267 | Play | What Will Become of Your High Existence? | 03:48 Tools | |
21407269 | Play | Solip | 04:33 Tools | |
21407276 | Play | Furtive | 05:06 Tools | |
21407272 | Play | Separate | 04:03 Tools | |
21407284 | Play | Tesla | 04:05 Tools | |
21407290 | Play | Digging a Hole | 04:27 Tools | |
21407273 | Play | Decompose | 04:00 Tools | |
21407280 | Play | I Fell Down a Very Long Well | 03:47 Tools | |
21407261 | Play | Bâtards Suprêmes | 02:59 Tools | |
21407278 | Play | A Modest Collection of Lint | 02:23 Tools | |
21407286 | Play | Side of a Mountain | 03:25 Tools | |
21407258 | Play | La vie par les deux bouts | 03:55 Tools | |
21407283 | Play | Abandon | 03:50 Tools | |
21407275 | Play | Alpha Pilos | 03:42 Tools | |
21407282 | Play | Un-Vaccina | 04:06 Tools | |
21407268 | Play | Subset Sixteen | 06:01 Tools | |
21407281 | Play | The Clouds Are Quite Wispy | 04:13 Tools | |
21407285 | Play | Pure-People | 03:42 Tools | |
21407277 | Play | Initial Signal | 03:55 Tools | |
21407306 | Play | Pas la peine de dire adieu | 04:43 Tools | |
21407287 | Play | Salt Lake | 07:29 Tools | |
21407294 | Play | Mifa | 04:28 Tools | |
21407291 | Play | JR 500 | 08:08 Tools | |
21407311 | Play | D'un amour à l'autre | 01:30 Tools | |
21407296 | Play | Separate (Snow) [At Work] V3 | 06:25 Tools | |
21407299 | Play | Uart | 07:43 Tools | |
21407319 | Play | Tu m'aimes mal | 01:30 Tools | |
21407300 | Play | Cargo Area C | 03:23 Tools | |
21407328 | Play | La première fois | 01:30 Tools | |
21407320 | Play | Qui je suis | 01:30 Tools | |
21407310 | Play | Broscam Mangrows | 08:07 Tools | |
21407288 | Play | I Am A Wreck (Gate Zero Reconstruction) | 03:51 Tools | |
21407322 | Play | Je m'en vais | 01:30 Tools | |
21407303 | Play | Parallel Fold | 09:23 Tools | |
21407298 | Play | Cargo Area D | 05:22 Tools | |
59191967 | Play | At Dusk I See Lights | 05:22 Tools | |
21407335 | Play | Te satisfaire | 01:30 Tools | |
21407304 | Play | Angar 4 | 00:00 Tools | |
21407293 | Play | What Will Become of Yur High Existence [City Rain Remix] | 03:46 Tools | |
21407331 | Play | Les gens bien élevés | 01:46 Tools | |
21407391 | Play | Gema | 08:29 Tools | |
21407343 | Play | Besoin d'autre chose | 03:31 Tools | |
21407340 | Play | La main dans le sac | 04:16 Tools | |
21407317 | Play | Cont-Figure | 00:00 Tools | |
21407295 | Play | Collocation [Specta Ciera Remix] | 04:35 Tools | |
59191968 | Play | fertive | 04:35 Tools | |
21407318 | Play | Kling | 04:38 Tools | |
21407386 | Play | Jr 500 (John Tejada Remix) | 05:40 Tools | |
21407274 | Play | When You Abandon Your Youth - Drexon Field Remix | 04:38 Tools | |
21407312 | Play | Interrupt structure | 03:57 Tools | |
21407314 | Play | Immolated (Zoon van snooK Remix) | 03:04 Tools | |
21407279 | Play | Bâtards suprêmes (Lafayette remix) | 05:31 Tools | |
21407321 | Play | Israel (Idhren Remake) | 05:27 Tools | |
21407333 | Play | Your Wayward Stare | 03:55 Tools | |
21407388 | Play | Cont - Figure | 06:27 Tools | |
21407315 | Play | When You Abandon Your Youth (Drexon Field Remix) | 04:38 Tools | |
21407372 | Play | Angar4 | 08:40 Tools | |
21407324 | Play | Lucent (Axiotronic Remix) | 05:17 Tools | |
21407336 | Play | Collocation (Specta Ciera Remix) | 04:35 Tools | |
21407326 | Play | I Am A Wreck (Ruxpin Remix) | 04:10 Tools | |
21407325 | Play | What Will Become of Your High Existence? (City Rain Remix) | 03:46 Tools | |
21407369 | Play | diode malfunktion | 05:05 Tools | |
87787652 | Play | Piece | 04:04 Tools | |
21407297 | Play | Immolated - Zoon van snooK Remix | 04:04 Tools | |
87787653 | Play | Melancholy Lasts | 04:04 Tools | |
87787654 | Play | Betablockers | 04:04 Tools | |
21407329 | Play | sOMn ambulance | 05:10 Tools | |
21407308 | Play | Separate - Snow [At Work] | 06:26 Tools | |
59191969 | Play | mifa (john tejada remix) | 05:10 Tools | |
59191970 | Play | A Field Where No One Can See You | 05:10 Tools | |
21407305 | Play | Israel - Idhren Remake | 05:27 Tools | |
21407379 | Play | Thought You Knew How to Drown | 09:12 Tools | |
87787655 | Play | Collusion | 05:18 Tools | |
59191971 | Play | I See Through Night | 09:12 Tools | |
87787656 | Play | Sofantastick | 05:28 Tools | |
87787664 | Play | Truncate (Vince Clarke Remix) | 03:52 Tools | |
89636674 | Play | Over Hills And Vales | 03:52 Tools | |
21407301 | Play | Lucent - Axiotronic Remix | 05:18 Tools | |
87787660 | Play | Questlore | 03:52 Tools | |
21407292 | Play | Batards supemes (Lafayette Remix) | 05:28 Tools | |
87787658 | Play | Truncate | 03:52 Tools | |
87787659 | Play | Cooperate | 03:52 Tools | |
87787661 | Play | Wrong Side Up | 03:52 Tools | |
21407302 | Play | I Am A Wreck - Gate Zero Reconstruction | 03:52 Tools | |
87787662 | Play | We Are Free Forms | 03:52 Tools | |
87787663 | Play | Under Waves and Seas | 03:52 Tools | |
59191975 | Play | Separate (Kieron James Jandia Remix) | 04:36 Tools | |
59191972 | Play | contrapuntal | 03:52 Tools | |
59191974 | Play | Separate (Snow [At Work]) | 04:10 Tools | |
21407307 | Play | I Am A Wreck - Ruxpin Remix | 04:10 Tools | |
21407309 | Play | What Will Become of Your High Existence? - City Rain Remix | 03:46 Tools | |
21407313 | Play | Collocation - Specta Ciera Remix | 04:36 Tools | |
59191973 | Play | (As it Was) | 04:10 Tools | |
21407339 | Play | Separate (Snow - At Work) | 06:25 Tools | |
87787678 | Play | Wrong Side Up (Mathieu Gendreau Remix) | 06:25 Tools | |
21407358 | Play | cont figure | 06:24 Tools | |
87787679 | Play | Multiple | 08:07 Tools | |
21407323 | Play | tunneling | 05:01 Tools | |
21407334 | Play | bios | 08:49 Tools | |
21407327 | Play | Separate - Kieron James Jandia Remix | 06:15 Tools | |
89636675 | Play | Left (Alka Remix) | 06:15 Tools | |
21407352 | Play | Separate (Kieron James Jandia Remix) | 06:14 Tools | |
21407393 | Play | 03 - Jr 500 | 00:00 Tools | |
89636676 | Play | Pump The Beat (Original Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
21407337 | Play | stacker | 08:07 Tools | |
21407332 | Play | remote login | 08:29 Tools | |
21407338 | Play | encapsulation | 05:32 Tools | |
87787680 | Play | What Will Become Of Your High Existence? (Mick Chillage Ghostly Echoes) | 08:07 Tools | |
21407316 | Play | What Will Become of Your High Existence - Mick Chillage Ghostly Echoes Remix | 12:04 Tools | |
59191978 | Play | I Am A Wreck (GateZero ReConstruction) | 08:07 Tools | |
89636677 | Play | Nou Sé Akiyo (feat. Omeka) | 08:07 Tools | |
87787682 | Play | What Will Become of Your High Existence (Mick Chillage Ghostly Echoes Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
59191977 | Play | jr500 | 05:01 Tools | |
87787683 | Play | default getaway | 05:01 Tools | |
21407367 | Play | 08 - Broscam Mangrows | 00:00 Tools | |
89636678 | Play | Pump The Beat - Original mix | 00:00 Tools | |
59191982 | Play | Sky Face Down | 00:00 Tools | |
59191979 | Play | D'un amour a l'autre | 00:00 Tools | |
59191976 | Play | I Thought You Knew How To Drown | 05:01 Tools | |
89636679 | Play | What Will Become Of Your High | 05:01 Tools | |
59191980 | Play | La vie par les 2 bouts | 00:00 Tools | |
21407382 | Play | Saanwariya Saanwariya | 00:00 Tools | |
59191981 | Play | Lazi me | 00:00 Tools | |
87787684 | Play | Happy Karma Christmas | 00:00 Tools | |
21407342 | Play | What Will Become Of Your High Existence? (Mick Chillage Ghostly Echoes Remix) | 12:01 Tools | |
59191983 | Play | Carolija | 12:01 Tools | |
59191984 | Play | saltlake | 12:01 Tools |
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.