PILL-N2 is Brian Grainger's first pill disc of the year: "Winter Triptych" is a procedurally generated piece built around loops in varying states of decay. Warbled patches of two-note pad sounds play in and out of phase, as more layers of bent loops eventually surround the stereo field. A warped tonality emerges like excess pressure emanating from an unstable pipe, and for 20 minutes you can almost see the air thinning out. Burbling drones grow out of a gaseous cloud weakly, giving the impression that nothing is stable enough to repeat for too long. A very dark piece, and a totally unique one for Brian to start 2009 with, bearing little to no similarity to anything else he's released at SSR before.

 

$8.00 USA / 10.00 INTL