Released
1997
Label
Daft/C.O.P.
Reviewed by
Luc Snijers
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Last Edit/Update
30 January, 1998
Monolith
COMPRESSED FORM
Track Listing
1. Audio-Decoder
2. Decompressed Form
3. Between Zero and One
4. The Resolution
5. Virtual Product Code
6. Protodive Five
7. Entertune Converter
8. Static Source Zits
9. Crash Comfort
10. The Shapeshifter
11. PXL Flux v2.1
While his ex-fellow Insekt Mario Vaerewijk is successful
with Lowpass (a trip-hop band), Erik Van Wonterghem
releases some instrumental synthwork on the label of his brother in law (Dive).
Once he was with Dive in The Klinik and these roots can
be recognized: especially people who like the double Klinik box or the softer works
by The Hybryds will enjoy these atmospheric soundscapes.
The 11 tracks vary from 30 seconds
to 6 minutes and merge easily into each other. The first 10 minutes is a soft awakening
from nothing, but then the birds start whistling and beats start slowly, supported by
extra soundscapes by Peter Hoste of Beyond Mixed Data. We just
don't get to dancing in 'The Shapeshifter' when we lay back at closing track 'Pxl Flux
v2.1'. The mastering was done at Prodam, the little company Erik
started after quitting Insekt.
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