Mokira - Time Axis Manipulation

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‘Time Axis Manipulation’ is the eighth full-length album from Swedish experimental dub/drone act Mokira (Type, Raster Noton & Mille Plateaux). When Andreas Tilliander’s Mokira alias was conceived in the 90s, it was all about noise and sound rather than anything else. In 2000 Mokira released his debut album ‘Cliphop’ on Raster-Noton, which helped define the clicks genre. The music was rhythmical with sparse minimalism and glitch grooves. After his album on Mille Plateaux, Mokira changed focus for the third album, released in 2004 on Type Records. This album was without percussion and the music was all about huge pads and analogue delays. This sound naturally leads up to today and the latest creation of Mokira. On ‘Time Axis Manipulation’, Mokira delivers a mixture of previous styles. You could call it Detroit Techno – but without the techno part. The album is a mix that starts out with ‘Manipulation Musik’, the darkest and most cinematic piece on this album. When the dub track ‘LFU Skank’ slowly enters the mix, dance is close and the wide spectrum of Mokira as an artist is revealed. ‘Time Track’, one of the key pieces of the album, moves further down into deepest dub, as rolling cords and bassline builds slowly towards a dub meltdown. ‘Rainford’ is rain and ‘Kendel’ is dessert leading up to the grand finale - the ‘Axis Audio’. Bursts of sound hits like waves on an Irish shore in autumn. Kept together by a solid bassline and a fragile melody ‘Axis Audio’ is an excursion in beautiful sounds. CD also contains a previous unreleased CV313 (Echospace) version of ‘Axis Audio’. You can call this album and the music of Mokira electronic kraut, harsh ambient or the deepest dub. Mokira focuses on the beauty of sound. Sounds beautiful enough in their own right. Together as songs, Mokira brings rain to your summer.