www.pixelsurgeon.com
Uncompromising, yet accessible, Absorption soaks up the musical surroundings of several genres and times, and spits them back at you as an intoxicating soup of fragmented and engaging audio.
www.babysue.com
Wonderfully heady progressive instrumentals...Mixing traditional instruments with electronics, the music is like a mental sweep from a variety of sources. These tracks incorporate ideas and concepts from dub to electronica to jazz to trance to techno...mixing them all up and spinning them back at the listener in an intoxicatingly mutated manner. Wonderful. (Rating: 5+++)
www.ivibes.nu
An interesting CD venturing in triphop land comes to
our attention by up-and-coming artist absorption in
their album release which defines the genre of downtempo
music. Beginning with some electro feverish guitars
and downtempo beats is Golden Age a marvelous opening
track which puts you into subliminal territory with
its ambient scapes and funked up electric guitars which
puts in a gleaming chillout track for those drunk evenings
out and about in the car or at home. Immediately attracting
to the album...
Kevin C
modern-dance
Imagine a kind of meld between Portishead, Massive
Attack, and throw in all the really groovy bits that
make the hairs on your neck stick up, and absorption
is what you’d probably end up with. The album’s
awash with found sounds and ‘conflicting’
influences, the results are somewhat dazzling —
it’s kind of ambient with balls, atmospherics
with bits in — hell knows, but it’s incredibly
addictive. And, guess what, it’s all the work
of one Londoner, Peter Beddow, whose live performances
are synched with a massive video screen. That is something
that I would like to experience as the music lends itself
sooooo much to that concept. In all there’s ten
tracks, and it’s like all your musical tastes
and experiences rushing past as if chasing twilight’s
last gleaming! Horrendous titles such as Dodgy Meat,
Spiritual Suicide battle for attention with odd ones
such as Dialled and sn109 — this is one joyful
and incredibly evocative affair.
DW
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