Two newcomers to the airecords fold ERP and Mariel, give us three tracks each on this new new release. As per the first splitep release this came out in a super limited coloured vinyl version, this one was fluorescent yellow and very damn fine indeed. Remember to keep them ears peeled for splitep3 later this year.

ERP up first:

"How did we become like this" injects a mysterious ambience over the room, with a rattlesnake like murmur, scuttling background samples and a bassline which laughs at you from the dark booth high up on the wall. Your shady surroundings begin to break and buckle under the strain of the robotic legions all around you, who are all in deep concentration, as the track takes control and overrides their primary objectives....anyone remember what robocops 4th objective was? This track has a glowing radiance which keeps you hooked, cool stuff.

"Members lonely" drops more of a bouncy dusk walkthrough of a thick dirty metropolis skyline, and this time you have remembered to wear your rocket boots. Skim through the heavy sky as the plodding bassline and crystal clear sub melodies issue commands and instructions, which leave you in heavy blubbery state and you somehow manage to float to the ground without any major problems.
Sit back with some proper headphones and let this one enter your primary input valve, I recommend it. "The way we were" finishes off ERP's output with a flickering shimmer sparkle outlay, which leaves remnants of optical disks all over the place, whilst scraping up and storing all the pockets of lost imagination and keeping them all for itself. This one is full of electric dreams.

Mariel Ito :

"Aproach" is your very best friend, but not a human friend, a replicant friend, made of manmade materials and running off powercubes shaped like bottles of milk. Staticy impression strikes stapled together with warbling electronic thuds, combine with the almost ghostly callings and 8bit waveforms give your new best mate the shakes, and he falls to the ground in a crumpled heap of misshapes technology. Now what are you gonna do? I recommend calling the robot cleaners, they are pretty good. Coool track.

"Future 2020" releases but contains the snapbeat from the very beginning, whilst smoothing a brooding style futuro fuzz oscillation, which knocks you from your tiny scalpel like legs. Fluttering and quivering shapes in the sky, don’t give you a second look as they perform intricate but also delicate formations, which seem to be a message to someone you can’t quite see. Fuzzy and friendly all in the same piece of music, el battery goodness. “Once upon a creature" pops and plinks around, ejecting fuzzy pills of craziness in the form of frozen mesh butterflies which don’t seem to move at all, and slide effortlessly around the super colourful maze you are now stuck within. Just take a look at those walls, they are about seven hundred foot high, but to your luck you have a simple escape route, which must now be executed....

Splitep2 is very good stuff, its like two sides of a perfectly formed plastic coin, with a core of liquid imagination that is seeping out and flooding your eyes, brain and ears. I'd get a cup and drink down some of the goodness if I were you.

Cool, good, cool. Roll on splitep3.

Sam