This CD 2002 offers 68 minutes of flowing electronic music. In this collaboration, Stokes is responsible for hand-forged electronics, sampling and rhythms, while Vir Unis handles synthesizers, treatments, grooves and manipulations.
Textural layers play a more prominent role here than in the above releases, serving as ethereal foundations for lively electronics and compressed rhythms. The main electronics are softer too, existing as surging sweeps which are embellished by additional sounds. Rotary noises often surface and ebb, as if striving to break through and infect the tunes with more agility. A pronounced liquid quality renders the songs with a softness that attributes them a remote demeanor. This soothing mien is also found in a variety of the sounds, like the fuzzed nature of numerous pulsations (an effect that stands in direct inverse to energetic crispness of those sounds). This coexistence of sharp and soft imbues the tunes with a distinctly entrancing appeal. Suppressing hyperactive chords in this way results in a slushy resonance, one that is highly attractive in its basic novelty.
The rhythms tend to be rather frantic, yet they are muffled so that the tempos flow instead of propel. The beats are highly synthetic, and are often actually non-impact sounds utilized in a rapid succession. Meanwhile, viable impacts sound more like slaps than hits.
These compositions pursue a lovely blend of ambience and animation, crafting melodies that flow in a relaxed manner while laced with prominently agile layers.