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Sleep D
Electronic Arts
A1
Planet Waves
A2
Outdoor System
B1
Sunrise In The Crater (I Exist)
B2
Strange Sounds
B3
From Village To Empire
C1
Punch Drunk
C2
Textile
D1
Happiness
D2
Hector (Dreaming)
D3
Hockey
Naarm alchemists Sleep D’s revelatory new synthetic ‘Electronic Arts’ is ready for circulation.
Never banging one drum, ‘Electronic Arts’ mirrors the anything goes mania of their DJ sets, tactfully shifting through different sounds and styles. Tempos intensify and decelerate, at times pushing the threshold to 150 bpm from docile canine dreamscapes to full tilt Space Invaders in AR mind games.
Largely built on road tested material from their live performances, the album is a tangible Butter Sessions gathering, busting out the gate with Martian rave initiation Planet Waves, Outdoor System’s polyrhythmic beatdown and the Orb-like hero dose affirmations of Sunrise In The Crater (I Exist). While ‘Electronic Arts’ is otherwise a self-dependent effort, Punch Drunk is brewed ever more potent by the hypnagogic vocals and lucid trumpet cycles of former futsal team member YL Hooi. Their unified energy incidentally manifests a profound matrix of ambient techno, motorik, Don Cherry and Everything But the Girl.