Description:	CD on Raster-Noton
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Raster Noton
	Price:	£15.39
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

5
...according to our Brett on 18 March 2009.

SND have got a new CD out on Raster Noton that follows up that ultra limited triple vinyl from last year with some serious rhythmical experimentation in a similar vein. Using almost nothing but building blocks of pretty standard old-school Roland sounds they construct little minimalist exercises in repetition that demand your utmost attention - we had it on yesterday and trying to work with it on in the background proved almost impossible, trying to concentrate on something else just wasn't going to happen. It reminded me a little of Autechre's Confield in that way, listen to it in the wrong mood or circumstance and it's going to do your head in, but at other times it'll be an immensely rewarding experience. Synths do occasionally pop up in a very subtle way but really this is all about the beats, fashioned in ridiculously varied ways considering the limited palette they're drawn from.. I guess that's what the title (Atavism) is babbling on about, taking the sounds that started it all and taking them down a different evolutionary path? Unlike many things of this nature though, it completely works on both a conceptual and musical level. A really classy CD with the usual classy Raster Noton packaging to boot.

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What their label says...

 “Atavism" is the fourth album from snd. It reveals, explores and reinterprets the fundamentals of its origins interpreted in a new time and a new context: simultaneously iteration, re-interpretation and a process of invention; both an allusion to the origins of a type and the genesis of something new. The geometric forms and rhythmic assuredness of first-wave techno combine with the linear clarity of digital minimalism to expose themes whose rhythmic and harmonic immediacy and ostensive sparsity belie the complexity of their form.  
In a cycle of exposition and development materials are slowly drawn through processes of compression and expansion, inversion and reversal, atomization and consolidation, to return shaped into new orders – a process of sonic origami. Over 16 untitled pieces, themes are developed slowly to the point of obliteration only to be re - layered and rediscovered in new surroundings.” raster-noton has been following the creativity of the boys behind snd for years. the special radicality of their work gains our full respect. the early release “blir. edits” which was part of raster-series documents this fundamental interest. we are proud to continue our collaboration by publishing a “real” snd-album today.