Muzak from hell... 60's spy themes... The club scene from Fire Walk With Me... These are all things that could MAYBE come close to describing "Onublauxe", the opening track from BRTLMN's 'Quinine' EP. With this work, BRTLMN has broken even his own threshold for the strange and awkward, yet the heart of the recording is surprisingly lucid and stripped down. This is not throwing feces at a canvas to see if it will stick. This is, on many levels, the art of re-constructing deconstruction. At times, the music subtracts itself into just a lonely slow oscillating rhodes. at times, it builds itself into a chaotic mashup of what seems like different takes on a theme. BRTLMN even dares to venture into the land of hip-hop... with stunningly tasteful and head-nodding results. This is simultaneously BRTLMN's most accessible AND abstract work to date, and only makes the listener more intrigued in what lies ahead.
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Reviewer:tangerinebreem - - April 12, 2008 Subject: Genuinely engaging So often I find IDM to be a sort of textbook 'oddness' with not much actually that intelligent about it, but I really likes this. It rewards a proper listen, doesn't let you wander off from it. Good stuff. :)
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Reviewer:greenhouse george - - November 22, 2006 Subject: better than life i trawled this release and am extremely happy with what i have found. much less hard edged than other works, and with strange twists that offer something very new. an excellent electronic compositional work
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