Prague label Genot Centre continues to supply low tape run (edition of 55) head boggle brilliance, this time from Finland’s Ecto Mist, named for a kind of ghost fog reportedly seen alongside orbs, spirit mediums, poltergeist activity, and so on. Although I don’t get a hugely paranormal vibe from this tape, there is certainly strangeness here, with the sound occupying a sort of Heisenberg uncertainty between texture and rhythm. The real mist is in the beat construction, in which aerosolized ticks and taps are ordered and disordered, glitching in and out of grid, shivering and worming their way forward. Ecto Mist explore micro to the maximum with this tape-on a track like “3 Version 4” for example, what begins as an isolated beat fragment grows to an enormous spilling rockslide. Other tracks resemble scores of amplified millipedes crawling through metal grate and chain link.
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