Musicentrydelete: Selfless

"In even the most straightforward Tanner Matt production, there's a moment where everything threatens to disintegrate. Since he began putting out leftfield house music in the early 2010s-working under aliases like Hashman Deejay, Studio Mody, and Ttam Renat, and in the groups Aquarian Foundation, Kinetic Electronix, and INTe*ra, among others-the Vancouver electronic musician has specialized in stripped-down tracks with shaky foundations and a sneaky dub underpinning."

"If you had to sum up the album in a word, it would be "smeared." It sounds like all 11 tracks were made with just one synthesizer, and most of the time its tones are blurred nearly beyond recognition, aquamarine chords churned into opalescent slurry. Where there are beats, they're equally diffuse-hi-hats dissolving into lawn-sprinkler spray, kicks as pliable as chewing gum on hot pavement."

"The opening "1izm" lays out the album's curious palette, which is somehow murky and shimmery all at once. Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets. Much of the record's action happens in the high end, where bright, digital harmonics fizz and glisten, dust motes in a strip-mall crystal emporium."

Tanner Matt applies obscurantist instincts to minimalist ambient techno under the Musicentrydelete alias. The recordings favor stripped-down synthesizer tones, shaky rhythmic foundations, and dub-derived delay techniques that destabilize grooves and blur syncopation. Recent collaborative EPs pushed rhythm into sandblasted, labyrinthine forms, and the album continues that tendency with dreamily psychedelic, woozy atmospheres. Sounds often appear as smeared, aquamarine chords and opalescent slurries, while percussion dissolves into diffuse sprays and pliable kicks. High-end harmonics and delicate electronic insect-like textures provide shimmer and murk. Tracks such as "1izm" and "K1Deep" juxtapose slow-attack haze with brittle, queasy swirls.

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