Various – Robot Connection #001

Electro has so much representation already that we’d have hardly imagined it needed a Coalition, but colour us mistaken, of course. Presumably functioning both as intergalactic senate and record label, here, on ‘Robot Connection 001’, the Electro Coalition commission four delegates to lay down one lengthy sonic deposition each. Sound Synthesis kicks things off with a moving acid purging, with soaring cutoff filters aplenty, setting the diplomatic record straight with a grand metaphysical treatise – ‘Physical Terrain’ – on the cosmopolitical terrain thus faced. Then Arsonist Recorder objects by way of a pure immaterial antithesis, with ‘T & A’ locking in heavy freq-layered constrictions between an accursed beat; then Neonicle’s ‘Combination’ and Sinitsin’s ‘People Are Aliens’, finally, form a worthy synthesis and thesis-return respectively, ending on a suspension of humanly intelligible feeling, in favour of a bellicist’s power fantasy in harsh snap-breaks and chromatic arp-arcs.