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Heatsick – Intersex

Album review


This guy is producing some of the strangest sounds around right now – so of course we were interested.

A bizzarre mix of classical orchestral instrumentation and someone off key harmonies open the record on ‘Taxi Zum No’, putting you into a weird trance like state before warping your mind with the bleepy ‘Von Anderen Ufer’. The fact that this record is largely improvisational isn’t really surprising.

It’s on ‘Tertiary’, with it’s tribal minimalism and looping synths, when Heatsick ties himself down to some sort of structure, that things get interesting. The repetition of previous tracks working their way into a 4am groove and an undeniable lo-fi charm.

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Tashaki Miyaki - EP
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