CHEjU - taito-ku ep
Label : Boltfish : Catalogue number : bolt018

Release date
: 2005

>Review Format<
CD


New release on boltfish from Cheju.

"Pachinko" rattles a load of crazy metal balls at you whilst weaving a magic song with a xylophone and a set of mystical eastern chords that release a water rich neon haze into the sky. The crispest of glitch static beats joins in, and adds an air of shattering plastic memories to the mixture as the melody drops into a hidden dark patch and a subby bassline handles it from here on in. A lesson in effortless beauty, awesome.

"Flipchart psychology" unzips itself and splinters into a thousand exact exact shapes as a 2001 synth stare takes you back to the days of fuel powered space travel, as you look back at yourself in the reflective material that your ion drive personal spaceship is crafted from and plan the mission to an unknown galaxy. This is atmopheric atmosphere to the highest level, I love it. "Bellflowerroot" is more of a monstrous twisting stagger through the pyramid skyscrapers of a virgin metropolis. You sitt on the shoulders of a terraforming droid out on the town with a bottle of hydrated diesel in one hand and a perfectly formed gyroscope in the other, its all that and THEN some. Sit back and soak it in through your sponge feet. Soyperb.

"Cloud garden" rounds off the ep. Ghostly and crystal clear from the very start, the track washes over you like a runaway hovercraft full to the brim with a heavy strobing bassline and piano mumblings that just ooze quality. Squeaks and rubberised peelings melt away to reveal the glistening spiral shaped entity below, that somehow manages to communicate with everything and anything in its vicinity with a simple speech pattern of simpleness and checks to make sure its all ok. Excellent.


Woh this release is good, Cheju has just torn up my mind and stitched it carefully back together adding colours and heightened memories throughout, this ep is outstanding in my opinion, real real REAL class.

Do not miss out on this one, Boltfish are now a label constantly delivering quality musics, with each release being more stunning than the last.


Sam


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