Pole - 1 Artist_Big Thief familiar yet novel

familiar yet novel

This style informs much of Donaldson's prior and current ventures of course (The Ivytree

LP on 180-gram vinyl with gatefold sleeve

If R Plus Seven was all crystalline arpeggiators and Garden of Delete was a feverish upchuck of gurgling synths

Pole - 1 Artist_Big Thief familiar yet novelStefan Betke's nine variations on damaged dub minimalism recall the best of Basic Channel techno while steering well clear of the monotony factor. As with Pole's first singles, these tracks materialize out of a haze of stuttering fuzz, bouncing thin shimmers of echoing synth off of ambiguous rhythms and taught, bulging bass. An excellent debut.