Mango Ray- aethernet (2015, Remissive Records) Release

Mango Ray
aethernet
(Remissive Records 030-2015)

RIYL: being stuck between the machinery and the ecstatic release. 

The information superhighway is clouded in tickertape dust and detritus.  They’re constantly tearing up the gravel, collapsing new buildings, moving deck chairs for the arrival of the net-unneutral Titanic.  The glow of the new is constant in parcel pieces, checkered through the shockwave/flash/java of packaging gloss.  Floating gamma adds, SEO toxins, RSS Feed the children.  

The millennials now crave gentle tampering.  Rest on a bed of soundwaves with the wiring exposed.  Music to transform the uncertainty of an institutional matrix too vast and complex to ever fully comprehend into the safety of childhood bewilderment.  The aethernet is one such sonic destination point.  Each track is both mechanical and fluid, the mercury flowing down its appendages into a rainbow pool below (or perhaps that’s just a visual hallucination resulting from the poison tongue put to the chemical mixture…mmm…mercury).  “Redistribution” twinkles and chugs alternately in asthmatic sighs that gasp out firecracker bursts.  Meanwhile “Itemize” is full of arbitrary vigor- imported violence juxtaposes cosmic radiance in editorial cuts that would make a superhero film dizzy and vomit (into rainbow pools of mercury, for hue is the cue to this mixture of unidentified sounds). 

“Ionic Gambit” extracts forlorn skeletons from dusty reels before they are rescued by triumphant wafts of nurturing synth, while “Grasshopper Lies Heavy” loops comforting patches of psychedelic digital tropics into a steady gait before dispersing them into destabilized zones.  These are songs that have been diced and arpeggiated into near unrecognition.  Tracks that don’t beg for a center, but instead continue to push further and further from one.   There’s two longform improvisational pieces (“Casinotone” and “Szyzygy”) at the core of the collection that dive deep into the scattered electronic sedimentsphere to ramasack the source code for salvage materials.  Returning to the surface, things look a bit different, covered in binary goo and algorithmic residue (“Midnight Haptic Kiss”, “Vaparson Wave”) but alarmingly more sedate and restorative. 

Tours of the aethernet are now being offered by Remissive Records, a bioimagineering firm that seeks to scramble only the proper brainwaves.  You may name your own price (such as zero) for a chance to probe this space further or simply observe the album as it streams through the fractured shared consciousness of your web browser.

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