...according to our Brian on Fri 10 Jul, 2009.
The talented Matt Atkins AKA Platform returns to the Norman update with a new volume of icy cerebral electronics and experimental techno. It's been christened 'Untitled 3" and from the off you've some fantastic electronic manipulation and tight future-beats to contend with. I find his stuff incredibly meditative, his music has a classic isolationist feel, some kinship with noted IDM classicists but he's plowing his own atmospheric furrow here. His sounds conjure up imagery of abandoned warehouses spilling with cyber menace but not in a particularly threatening manner, just deliciously eerie, as you stalk from dripping water tanks, vaulting demolished walls, surveying the wan light for marauding animals, your MP3 quietly spits out the sharp, abstracted yet accessible sounds of Platform. This is pretty futuristic stuff and if yr into more cyber-tastic realms of electronica then this man's refreshing vision may be the soundtrack to future nights of contemplation. For fans of later period Autechre & possibly Bitstream's outer limits?Be the first to review this record. Best reviewer each month gets £10 off their next order!