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Recommended by us on 27th May 2010
...according to our Brett on Thu 27 May, 2010.
Tour 7" time! For the tour which most of us will be sampling down the road this Friday eve! Exciting times for which this 7" serves as a delightful appetiser. Tomutonttu released a couple of dementedly fantastic CDs on Fonal not long back that got Brian frothing at the pants and 'Likaiset Pilvet' keeps up the quality, mangling electronic sounds in his highly characteristic fashion until they sound like.. Er.. Fuck knows. At the beginning they might seem to vaguely fit in with the cosmic synth thing that's popular at the moment but in general a far weirder Black Dice is the comparison that these crazy rhythms are bringing to my mind. Oneohtrix Point Never point never disappoint never and they don't here, not never. His vintage synth tones begin with a floaty ambience which gradually builds in intensity as if you're suspended above a mysterious alien planet watching the sun slowly creep over the rim.. And just when you think it's gonna start blaring out at you it elegantly draws itself back. Class in a glass (or on a disc of vinyl)
This vinyl pairing of Finland's Tomutonttu (Kemialliset Ystavat's Jan Anderzen), and New York's Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel
Lopatin) was released to celebrate their joint UK tour back in May. Both artists contributed new tracks that, whilst being sonically
different from each another, create a unique synthesis formed from a DIY approach to electronic music, which makes this
pairing both logical and inevitable. Tomutonttu's ‘Likaiset Pilvet’ sees Anderzen diving deep into his archives, and re-emerging
with something new after a heavy editing session. The track kicks off with some fragmented electronics, bringing to mind an
image of a dozen Bernard Parmegiani records all melting in unison. The second half sees a shift in pace and a more playful
atmosphere, introducing elements such as rhythmic loops and other scattered sounds that, as a whole, bear similarities to
Eric Copeland's recent output. OPN's ‘Wayland Lincoln Border’ is a continuation of Lopatin's synth work, which is already
well recognized in his young career. Building deep layers of warm sound from trance-like synth melodies, Lopatin's music is
evocative of motion as it never feels stuck - always evolving, constructing and deconstructing new worlds from sound, and here
he provides the perfect counterpoint to Anderzen's chaos. Released in an edition of 500 with cover art by Jan Anderzen - these are the last remaining copies from that pressing so act fast.
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