Four Tet/Pole
Pole Vs Four Tet EP(Leaf)
Two luminaries from the rarefied world of post-tronica, an underground genre so cutting-edge we have just invented it, meet in a futuristic airport lounge, silently exchange briefcases and then
retire to their respective laboratories to deconstruct each other's sonic dribblings.
The verbs have not yet been coined which fully describe the resulting hybrids of Stefan 'Pole' Betke and Kieran 'Four Tet' Hebden, but in the interest of linguistic accuracy we note that Hedben's mix of Betke's 'Heim' not only ebbs and oscillates but pullulises, scrarbles and thrungs in its more esoteric moments.
When Betke returns the favour with Hebden's 'Cload', it stretches beyond arhythmical twitching
and begins to gire and gimble
in its snorgling extremities. These are not austere experiments, though, but playful and oddly soothing mood pieces which should frumble your inner lobes with a doobilicious serenity.
Stephen Dalton
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