re:mote voices

Title: Automoto
Artist: Discom
Label: Deco

Code Colour is a drawn out piece of vibrant electronica, described by the gaps in the blips of dissolving structure. Foc follows with the mutters of child voices, mixing abrasive cuts, to give an abrupt and jangled signal. Formoil is a brief piece, which plays with a plink structure, melody unfolding in a teasing manner. Plexu Glass is a delicate formation, constructed from the tumble and squelching hums of stray electrons.

With a streaming signal blips burst, hum and chatter in Waterpromo, cohering into a kind of ambient. Hums rise and fall in Les Fleurs, sounds interspersed with static washes and low-key lush electronics. Import/Airport comes on edged waves, giving a sharp rise and fall, with periods of silence punctuated by a bit stream. Soft As Snow (But Crack Inside) continues the ideas of Import/Airport, extending a pulse stream. Here there is a certain aggression, sharp blips and soft sighs working through the material.

Palladium/Love Ultrabrite putters with a hesitant hum wash, cut up with buzz interludes, which gives a contrasting punk proximity. Which is to say that it progresses into more discordant material. Napalm Desk builds from microscopic to microscrape, filling audio space with quiet hums and a scraping rattle. Building with mechanic gestures towards electron abrasion. Aeromexicofluo bursts and stutters, before pausing and repeating. Building through cut up percussive rattles.

Code Coleur is strident and vibrant, a piece strong and memorable electronica. Melodic and coherent it thrums with potential realised. This is the albums stand out, anthemic in it’s off-kilter sequences. The CD rounding out with the brief and backwards running brushes of Extra-Format Raw Powerzouk. Discom’s Automoto is a 13 track journey through electronica, going through the ranges of melodic humming warmth to more abrasive, distorted cuts.