We here at fish.cloud have very particular listening habits during the winter months, warming our frozen ears with immersive ambience and keeping our pulses up with tiny rhythmic disturbances in the mix. Crystalline tones, shimmering echoes and pools of creamy reverb are the hallmarks of winter's sound. Today it snowed...it iced...it was generally hellacious out. The drive home from the office took over 2 hours, but somehow it was all made bearable by the pulsating clicks and clacks of Jetone's "Ultramarin" LP. A retired alias of harmonic noise monger Tim Hecker, whose recent release, "Harmony In Ultraviolet," ranked among many a critic's best of '06, Jetone focused on the austere minimal techno aesthetics of labels like Mille Plateaux and ~Scape rather than with the drifting radio static and guitar feedback squalls of Hecker's more recent material. During my drive, glitched beats and a throbbing 4/4 pulse skittered across the frozen surface of the landscape as static transmissions peered out from the spaces in between, and I'm sure the polar bears lurking just behind the treeline were breaking out the glowsticks and party favors as I made my way home. Here's a quick sampling of this magic for y'all to chisel your cars out to in the morning.
Penguin Techno:
Jetone, "Thousand Oaks" (YSI)
Jetone, "Spectres" (YSI)
Today's ill-ustration: "A Fleeting Glimpse Of Subarctic Electrokelp," by the ever-brilliant Dan Lisowski.
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