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Modular Anxiety is a split LP comprised of 10 tracks that presents anaudacious and fresh face in the land of ambient / drone synth music.One side belongs to Dino Spiluttini (with works on Home Normaland Beatismurder) and the other to Nils Quak (who has released onlabels such as Nomadic Kids Republic and Sis Sic Tapes).It could be argued that for each common trait that binds them, there are twice as manydifferences that throw them apart. If the same words can be used to describe both sides(spatial, cathartic, acute, deep) one must also concede that they may not even belong tothe same genre, even if the two of them do hum and drone profusely, glitch at intervals,and (apparently) constitute their sound from a warm analogue-digital palette.But the differences in character cannot be ignored: Spiluttini's work is relatively direct andspecific, with soaring melodies, taut structures, high frequency grasslands, surprisesand electronic nuances full of musical drama sense, while Quak's - written entirelyon a modular synthesizer - sound is somehow more obscure, with a slower sense oftime, cooler colors, bubbling textures, piercing notes, a mood of brooding mystery andmenace, atonal melodies and phrasings, and an all-around smoky vision and sensibility.So, the question arises: how come that such contrasting visions work so well together?Both sides are made of synthetic music that sometimes evokes distorted environments& landscapes, but that hardly accounts for the odd tonal unity and continuity that goesfrom the A-side (Dino Spiluttini) to the B side (Nils Quak). Yet, they're both equally friendlyto the ear and satisfying in their own way. When considered together, they share a tacitagreement, a subtle and eerie intuition that goes back and forth between them.S I D E A0 1 A N X I E T Y0 2 D OWN E R0 3 C R AWL I N G0 4 T H EME F O R A B L E A K L I F E0 5 WA L LOW WA L LOW0 6 WE A K LOV ES I D E B0 7 N O D R E AMS0 8 O C TAG O N A L J O U R N E Y0 9 T R O P I C S P I R A L S1 0 D U E T F O R MO D U L A R B R A S S
Modular Anxiety is a split LP comprised of 10 tracks that presents anaudacious and fresh face in the land of ambient / drone synth music.One side belongs to Dino Spiluttini (with works on Home Normaland Beatismurder) and the other to Nils Quak (who has released onlabels such as Nomadic Kids Republic and Sis Sic Tapes).It could be argued that for each common trait that binds them, there are twice as manydifferences that throw them apart. If the same words can be used to describe both sides(spatial, cathartic, acute, deep) one must also concede that they may not even belong tothe same genre, even if the two of them do hum and drone profusely, glitch at intervals,and (apparently) constitute their sound from a warm analogue-digital palette.But the differences in character cannot be ignored: Spiluttini's work is relatively direct andspecific, with soaring melodies, taut structures, high frequency grasslands, surprisesand electronic nuances full of musical drama sense, while Quak's - written entirelyon a modular synthesizer - sound is somehow more obscure, with a slower sense oftime, cooler colors, bubbling textures, piercing notes, a mood of brooding mystery andmenace, atonal melodies and phrasings, and an all-around smoky vision and sensibility.So, the question arises: how come that such contrasting visions work so well together?Both sides are made of synthetic music that sometimes evokes distorted environments& landscapes, but that hardly accounts for the odd tonal unity and continuity that goesfrom the A-side (Dino Spiluttini) to the B side (Nils Quak). Yet, they're both equally friendlyto the ear and satisfying in their own way. When considered together, they share a tacitagreement, a subtle and eerie intuition that goes back and forth between them.S I D E A0 1 A N X I E T Y0 2 D OWN E R0 3 C R AWL I N G0 4 T H EME F O R A B L E A K L I F E0 5 WA L LOW WA L LOW0 6 WE A K LOV ES I D E B0 7 N O D R E AMS0 8 O C TAG O N A L J O U R N E Y0 9 T R O P I C S P I R A L S1 0 D U E T F O R MO D U L A R B R A S S