Ochre - a midsummer nice dream

Label : Toytronic
Catalogue number : Toy019

Release date : 2005

 

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CD


Toytronic pop up again with a new release and this time its the debut solo release from 'Ochre'.

"Yugen" warps backwards in time and then reappears in a bubble of yesterday in front of your eyes stuttering and juddering around like an android low on reserve power. A super sub beat hugs the ground trying to stay out of sight, whilst smooth edged cubes of magical strength build themselves around you, blocking you into staying to listen to the secret display. This is one you wont mind being semi kidnapped for, smooth as a robots manifold duct. Cool.

"Revolver" manages to sneak out a little smile, keeping your attention as the other members of its tiny but calculating gang spray a plastic like liquid over everything in the vicinity, which bubbles and pops, ricochets and spits and sends a hidden coded message into the airwaves for all to hear. Rammed with airborn magic and stacked to the hilt with smiling characters, this one captures your head for its lifespan. "Rem sleep research" plays its special song with almost a cathedral like presence to its musical outlay, with grand chords and sparking melodies that are gagging to be broadcast over huge distances. Remember to join in with the rubber ping people as they scuttle and explode all over the freakin pace, its mandatory, so just get down.
Clickwhizzle pop style goodness for you all.

"Drink Malk" wraps its face hands and lower legs in an 8bit coat and takes you to another world, with a cascade of electrocuted pipe game adventure soundtrack style spinrotationalifegetquality that is packed with warmth and perfection. Just listen to it. Whilst "Involution" plays a different tune, with an acoustic style pipe attempting to communicate with the passing clouds with a friendly message that seems to fall on deaf white puffy ears. Luckily a zap droid falls from one of the passing chalk barges and joins in just for a laugh, turning our viewers origina track into a fuzzy minimal acid journey into semi complete darkness. Another cool one.
"Saturniner" streams its message through every available port, and it seems the message is confidential and is being relayed by a series of minimal clicks and almost dry tones that skim around in the background like circling vultures mapping out a template on the floor below, spooky stuff.

The title track "Midsummer nice dream" is a processed fairytale spread out thin on a sheet of fluorescent glass which is slowly shaking and humming to bring the item back to life. Once the music begins an ever growing selection of machined items with grinning smiles and globuar like lifeforms come out of hiding to soak it all in, its like a a cold wind flowing through your inferno of a flat (greenhouse) in the middle of summer. Refreshabot excellence.


Ochre has jumped up to the table with this full length release on the 'tronic and has really laid it down double well. Its like an instruction manual, packed with information and amazing technical specifications which on the sly is secretly seeping hidden codes and enchanting melodies into the oxygen. Character tunes for all. Coola.


Sam


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