Review: Graffiti Mechanism's Fueled by Emotion

One of the pieces I wrote for a site offering downloadable stuff for free.

Proc-Records founder and curator Adam Crammond, a k a, Graffiti Mechanism, picked -- or conceptualized, whichever the case -- a rather curious cover for his latest effort Fueled by Emotion. Archetypal digital illustrations and graphic images come to mind when the subject of electronica album art is brought up, so it only rightly elicits a slight shrug that this release features a low-definition, worm's-eye view photo (with mirror effect) of a tree ostensibly taken during a drought.

But looks, as the discerning would know, can be deceiving: the seven solid tracks of the album, which was released by Happy Puppy Records, intuitively belie whatever pallidness the cover may come off as having.

Review: Pollux's Rspct

Another one of those pieces I wrote for a site offering downloadable stuff for free.

The album Rspct opens with a track that's proper for its role: Rspct Intro features a thin but layered drone shifting from this direction to that until it renders itself redolent of aircraft sounds, or of spacecraft ones (it depends on your imagination, really) and, consequently, creates the illusion of one taking flight, perhaps toward Pollux– not the artist behind the EP, but the brightest star in the constellation of Gemini, from which the musician presumably took his moniker.