SO MY FRIEND DAVID SAW JIM AROUND THIS TIME DOING 'LAPTOP MUSIC' WHICH SOUNDS IN 2020 LIKE IT COULD BE ANYTHING BUT AT THE TIME IT WAS GENERALLY ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR TYPE OF AMNIOTIC, ELUSIVE, "AMBIENT" (WE WILL ENCOUNTER AND PERHAPS DISSECT THIS LATER) MUSIC THAT WAS BY TURNS DISTANT FROM CONVENTIONAL STRUCTURES BUT ALSO, BECAUSE OF THE WAY LAPTOPS AND DIGITAL WORKSPACES WORK, INEVITABLY STRUCTURED.
THIS IS A FAIRLY APPROACHABLE SET OF ELECTRONIC EXCURSIONS THAT PERHAPS HERALDS THE DAWNING OF "LAPTRONICA" WITHOUT EVER REALLY COMMITTING TO IT OR SOUNDING OUT OF PLACE ON A LABEL RUN BY AVANT VETERAN MATS GUSTAFSSON (MUCH MORE OF WHOM LATER I WOULD VENTURE).
I HEAR BITS OF OVAL AND FENNESZ HERE IN THIS REVISITING OF FLUTTERING AND DECAYED SNATCHES OF ELEGIES; NOT QUITE RIVERS OF SOUND BUT OBSESSIVELY FOLLOWING THE SMALLEST TRIBUTARY UNTIL IT RUNS OUT AND THEN WE RETURN TO THE MAIN SOURCE.
THE LONG MIDDLE TRACK TAKES SOME TIME TO GET INTERESTING SO MAYBE I WOULDN'T RUSH OUT TO CHECK THIS OUT AGAIN ANY TIME SOON BUT AS INSCRUTABLE COMPUTER COMPOSITIONS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD GO THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD BATCH.
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