[PREVIEW] Strategy - Hellbound And Nitrous (DT003) by Jacktone | Dreamtone published on 2021-10-20T01:25:53Z RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY OCT 22 https://dreamtone.bandcamp.com/album/chaotic-era On Chaotic Era, Dickow's first release with Dreamtone, the artist zeroes in on a strain of glitched & scorched production that applies subtle decisions of textural disfiguration and effects processing to central synth figures that lurch and churn along their own chopped rhythmic grids. As Dickow builds tracks over foundations that might resemble a corroded sample airing out a melancholy quasi-melody, or backdrops of throbbing bass accented with speckles of static, he patiently tinkers with the timbre and level of intensity of each element in the mix. The result is a branch of ambient music that steps just over the threshold of narcosis into the realm of steady narrative development, complicated with the upheavals of a wall of distortion here, a sudden dollop of abstract electronic putty there - all struck through with microscopic details in tonal shaping and generatively interacting arrhythmic loop architectures. Chaotic Era arrives in tandem with a surreal short graphic work by Lando. The artist runs a publishing collective called Decadence alongside fellow comic artist Stathis Tsemberlidis, who together have published 11 anthologies of short science-fiction comics featuring their own work, as well as other contributors - including a number of Lando's individual zines. Lando has also been featured in a larger collection of older / out of print work published by UK publisher Breakdown Press. His stories explore themes including ecology, geopolitics and deep time, while experimenting with the format of the printed zine to escape conventional expectations. Genre Electronic Comment by Geosmina Beautiful texture 2022-08-08T20:39:38Z