Black Dog Productions' full-length debut is a sprawling deviation from techno-as-throwaway-dancefloor-fare, weaving surprisingly engaging melodic and harmonic passages around complex rhythmic patterns and diverse, somewhat ambient atmospherics. Although all of the material was previously released in 12" or EP form, it holds up surprisingly well as a unified, coherent whole. With
B12's
Electro-Soma and
Autechre's
Incunabula, one of the first and finest blasts in the European "intelligent techno" movement.
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Sean Cooper, Rovi