Loscil - Triple Point
The contagion has spread. No longer can you say "Basic Channel" and be limited to releases on Germany's label of the same name. That distinctive sound has spread beyond the walls and borders, insinuating itself in many diverse places. The latest outbreak can be found on Kranky: Loscil's Triple Point. The aquatic dub echo of "Ampere" can be traced straight back to Porter Ricks' Biokinetics. Gentle sine waves and nearly indistinct blips float over the submerged bass rhythms. The synthetic melodies gain strength, coming closer in the mix, twisting end evolving like a sweeping school of glowing jellyfish, while the lower registers are forced beneath your skin to dully thud against your thicker bones.
"Pressure" wakes slowly, like a bead of magma slowly being extruded on a deep ocean floor, bubbles of pressurized gas escaping in shining streams, the hot magma sending out waves of distortion through the heavy water. "Freezing Point," reminiscent of both Monolake and Gas, hiccups on the edge of restraint, movement snared in a loop of sound. "Vapour" rings with the rising columns of expanding vapor as liquid is turned into steam and quickly achieves lift, condensation sliding and dripping along the rim of the container. It all ends with "Absolute:" the cold point when even atoms can no longer move -- they gradually slide and slither to a stop, the only thing left is a fading drone.
Loscil is Scott Morgan, a Vancouver native whose past work has been designing music for film, DVDs, CD-ROMs, websites, as well as material used to soundtrack films at Vancouver's independent Burning Light Cinema. Triple Point is material from a self-released CD, A New Demonstration of Thermodynamic Tendencies, molded and refolded among new creations. A conceptual treatise on the nature of thermodynamic concepts (the exchange of energy, heat, and the transformation of liquids into solids), Triple Point is a musical expression of these purely scientific abstractions. Who knew they were so delightfully minimal and rhythmic?
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