ARD BIT: Spanon
In the ashes of the complex structure called IDM we see a lot of beautiful new stuff created. Leader of the pack is no doubt Nosaj Thing who combines the inheritance of IDM with the avant-hip-hop we now call abstract beats (the Beat Dimensions-ish beats). It’s a difficult precarious trajectory because the thin line between nerdism over aesthetism and other ism’s are in the ambush to claim you and suffocate you in that pillow of IDM.
Ard Bit is such a guy who balances the line. His new record has some great stuff but also includes some real turn of the century over-thought pieces that are to constructed to complex ideas.
His opener Spanon is magic, the beats, the structure holds back seduces you to get a bit closer from there it’s opening up slowly. The second one, Bleck, starts of like something between jazz-jungle (‘95-’96) mixed with spheric IDM, I’m 15 years back in time on a smooth couch with dimmed lights. Toy suddenly goes deep into the Autechre complexity I like from IDM full of layers, drum patterns, laserguns and blurry bass. Castick Flow and Klint take it from there, deeper into the IDM spheres although Klint moves a bit closer to click techno (longtime I used that term).
On this record you’ll find some really beautiful treasures with dark Dvil and bass rumbler of Fiber and Bongite. Some of the tracks are a bit to much the old sterile IDM and miss some groove some warmth but all together contains a lot of listening pleasures, the amount of spins in my player are there to confirm it
Spanon
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Bleck
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