When we were approached by US idm-er Pliant, who you may know as the label-boss of the superb videogame.elektronik.otaku peeps, Systorm Technologies, and the mastermind behind the experimental idm-ish
video label, Frogbomb, and he said he had an entire album available
for release on Monotonik.. well, needless to say, we jumped at
the chance.
And actually, we're still jumping now. "Maruera Gum" takes the
acclaimed "Zelda's Windmill" from the Pliant/Bokatsu "1UP" 7-inch
as a starting point, and cuts up 11 tracks of pure, rhythmic,
video-game-inspired electronics. If you want a good starting point,
then try the acoustic guitar + quiet storm percussion of the
first track, "Rye Toast", the 'piercing clear melodies' of the
afore-mentioned "Zelda's Windmill", and the spot-on tribal
steel drum harpsichord breaks of "Forest Cake".
And with many of the tracks mixing into each other, you'll want
to grab the whole caboodle just to check out the hidden majesty
of spook blink luck "Toothpowder" or the plain dysfunctional
"Latch Esis". You'll find that, the more you listen to this album,
the more its intricacies draw you in and swirl you around the
sketched-up pliability that is Pliant's (s)nes.hop world.
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