Another Electronic Musician - States of Space

‘States Of Space’ is the new album from Jase Rex's Another Electronic Musician project, his fourth for N5MD, and fifth in total. The album gets its title from the physiological effects of his mental state during an emotionally difficult time. It also alludes to how his perception of his environment shaped his thoughts. Rex has sidestepped any stylistic expectations from his previous album, ‘Five’ (2008), by changing his working environment with the introduction of hardware into what previously was a strictly software based creative process. This more tactile way of working has given Rex room to let the songs breathe more than before and an almost 'less is more' ethos has crept into his music that also implies the album's title. Although this approach may seem more minimalist on paper, it has not at all affected the production, melodicism or density of the Another Electronic Musician sound. In places, AEM’s combinations of stark, moving melodies, underwater dub grooves, and elastic beat collisions create expansive, yet intimate, moments of abstract fragility that recall the early work of Lusine and Pole. In others, unexpected stylistic shifts into techno, electro and even house infuse relatively more recognizable patterns of noise. However, the biggest shift on this new set is in Rex’s addition of hardware equipment to the virtual world in which he was creating his music before. ‘States Of Space’ is the first fruits of this new environment, and is by far AEM’s most wide-reaching and confidently executed album to date.

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