Platform - EP1

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4...according to our Ant on Wed 13 Aug, 2008.

Its great to have some new material from Matt Atkins' Platform. The first track treats our ears to some proper decent crunchy beats and weeping cinematic synths and then a really sweet melody just melts me into submission. It fits in wonderfully with the mechanical beats and reminds me of Chiastic Slide period Autechre. The second tune has some wicked sounds that morph around a slow heavy beat. Crisp little clicks and bleeps mutate and give of a pure sterile cold electronic futuristic feel. Fans of Alva Noto should dig the rhythms of 'Phial' while closer 'What We Saw' is an ace piece of melancholy electronica really injecting some of his soul into the circuits. EP1 is a quality Ltd CD on Minimal Resource Manipulation.

Minimal Resource Manipulation is proud to present its fifth release, “EP1” by Platform. Following on from the “Distanced” album and the “Reset” EP (released as a free download via the Cryoworks netlabel) earlier this year “EP1” comprises four tracks of experimental electronica. Opening with the crunchy, down tempo melancholy of “Dorsal”, “A Supposition” and “Phial” follow, crisp and icy slivers of rhythmic minimalism. Closing track “What We Saw” dissolves samples of Anton Webern in a sonic petri dish to great effect, creating an atmosphere of shifting and drifting timbres. “EP1” is another step forward in developing and defining the Platform (and MRM) sound.

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