Well - this is blinking marvellous Andy
Audio-wise it sounds fantastic : great mastering job - really well balanced, nicely under control but with plenty of dynamics - hasn't just had this shit squashed out of it. Really 'airy' too with plenty of stereo cleverness going on.
But more importantly ...musically it's the dogs cajones. 'Pomeroy' is all brooding & industrial, but with quite lovely melody tucked away at it's centre & sets the tone really nicely.
I think I'm a bit in love with 'Diffusion' as it's got that buried funk that I adore in the best electronic music - heck it's virtually techno at it's core. stunning.
'Taroko' sounds like it's from Japan or the Far East somewhere - I think that's a combination of both the scale it's primarily working around, the feel & syncopation of the percussion & also just the sonic pallete : I kept thinking of some of Ryuichi Sakamoto's more niggly stuff. ace.
'A particularly Violent Dream' is a complete change of well, everything... it comes in like a breath of soothing air.... a quite beautiful little melodic / harmonic interplay & then we get the fantastic percussion which somehow underpins & yet leans all over the feel of the melody part. You're quite a genius at doing this on a high-wire balancing act Andy - it should all fall over but it doesn't. Great track.
'DAHKShuunt' starts off like some machine designed to test the strength of high-tensile wires or something & then turns into a funky chug through a robotic assembly line...
Basically this is as good if not better than anything being produced by anyone, anywhere right now. Brilliant work.
