- Rich, ambient-leaning techno for fans of Voices From The Lake or Wata Igarashi.
- Techno is often overwhelming, spurred on by the all-powerful kick drum, which on the right (or, often, wrong) sound system can threaten to block out everything around it. But sometimes techno is enveloping, inviting, more like an atmosphere than a blunt force weapon. It's the latter style that Laura BCR—formerly of Bass Cadet Records—explores on her Live At Robert Johnson debut, Human Behavior is a four-track expanse of vast, cavernous techno that seems to go on much longer than its 23-minute runtime.
"Farewell" begins like an inside-out Plastikman track, based around a persistent snare roll—or is that the spinning blades of a helicopter?—floating choppily through a veil of reverb. Chords ring out in the background as other sonic motifs bounce in and out, echoing into infinity like a rock skipping across the surface of a lake. The feeling of perpetual motion in "Farewell" bleeds into the other tracks, with the spacey gurgles and cold wave synths of "Post Dynamic" to the solid, almost catchy chord progression that defines the closer "Long Wait." And, with help from Launaea, the title track fleshes out some more discrete texture, with supple hand percussion adding a slight gridded feel to these otherwise weightless tracks. The EP grows and develops beautifully, yet ends basically as it began—the kind of techno that plays with your mind as much as your body.
Tracklist01. Farewell
02. Post Dynamic
03. Human Behavior feat. Launaea
04. Long Wait