The label Liberation Technologies seems to have taken up the challenge to exemplify current paradigms in British electronic music. Its sub-label, Mute Records, are doing a great job in that very field. Their focal point rests on musicians who try to break up existing conventions in the field of electronic music without tilting into academic waters. Their fifth release is no exception, the only difference is that their protagonist, Mark Fell is no spring chicken waiting to be discovered, but a long established musician. For a full decade, he has delighted us together with Mat Steel as part of the duo snd. Additionally, he’s been responsible for ambitious releases for Raster-Noton and Editions Mego On top of it all, he has developed his very own sound, easy to make out on this record: minimalistic and coolish sound snippets, put together in hard cuts, brought to life by loops. Last year, Mark Fell experimented with house under the name of Sensate Focus, throwing the genre off its tracks and moving it into unbalanced territory. What came out of this experiment, his dealings with groove, has found its way into the two 11-minutes-tracks on »n-Dimensional Analysis«. Because this time, Fell doesn’t seem to try to measure out a genre or to acquire material for a new structure – this record is about form. He presents this new form without going into great detail, which the title »n-Dimensional Analysis« could be hinting at. Apparently, the formula can be used to calculate measures of a geometrical ball, but then again, I have no idea about applied mathematics, neither do I proud myself with grasping physics to argue with firm conviction. What I’m trying to say is this: Mark Fell has never been this close to perfection when creating sounds through his approximate technique.
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