Tim Martin IS "Maps and Diagrams",and he is next up on the review list for Tesselate this month, with the third release on Arable label. "Tactile Love" is also co produced by Robin Saville who runs Arable, and who is also one half of the mighty "Isan", so its looking good.

"Florin base" instantly takes you to a nature rich planet, with beads of water dripping off the nearest ten foot high dandelions, as car size ladybirds , cruise past your head, sending out audio skip ripples in the air, that penetrate your ears like a plonking water ridden piano melody. The acoustic guitar in this track, really does give off a cotton padded atmosphere, which keeps you relaxed down low throughout the entire piece of music. Relaxo time. "Tactile Love 1" manually hits eject on the rusted up machine, and releases an entire gassy like cloud of whirs and slowly rotating leaf patterns throughout the room, just to let you know whats goin on..end.

"Udier" takes on the task, of digging up all the discarded droids, that have been left out here in this barren wasteland, to rust and decay. Luckily with its glowing light arms, and hissy sparkle hydraulics, this isnt going to be a problem. As each machine is plucked from its silicon grave, the cascading waterfall of tiny sand granules, give off an almost pulse rich tune, that regenerates the sleeping androids, and bring a smile to their dry faces, whilst "Tactile Love 2" is an organic program slowly bursting into life, by force feeding itself iron fillings and wooden shavings via a hard light tube, straight into its central power core. Yeh, now you get it.
"Ellips" skims above the surface of the ice, and gradually melts a hole big enough, to lower itself into the secret canyon below. Once inside,the full glory can be seen from above, rich gold walls and glowing rounded corner cubes stack themselves on top of each other, attempting to create a platform for your safe landing, and give off a sunshine melody that washes over your dirty craft like a massive sponge. Blips scratches and sublte beat patterns all blend together in this one thick milkshake, that is begging to be drunk. Amazing stuff.
"Tactlie love 4" slides along, propelled by a rattling clic pulse and a piano guitar mixture, that seems to give off heat, even through the headphones, get applying that suncream.

"Tactile Love" is a morning dew mixture of organic leaves, mixed up with subtle glitch explosions and blue sky melodies. Maybe a little bit to chilled out for my taste, but tracks like "Ellips" certainly had me nodding along.

Definetly worth a listen, more so if you are a fan of the "ISAN" vibe.

Sam