Artist : Portable
Album : Powers Of Ten
Genre : Electronic
Format : CD, Album
Country : UK
Label : Sud Electronic Records
Cat. : SUD011
Date : 10-22-2007
Tracks : 9
Time : 61:54 min
Size : 92,3 MB

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Release notes

Producer Alan Abrahams is already onto his fourth album, having already
graced the rosters of Background Recordings and scape with full-length
releases. This latest body of work seems to be the fruit of a great deal of
collaboration, and no short supply of vocals, though not always in a
conventional sense. Voices are mangled and dissolved into the rest of the
production on tracks like ‘Shifting Sunlight’ (which features Tor of
Deadcombo), and similarly ‘Locate’ uses its female vocal as another
percussive element, integrating nicely into the 4/4 network of hypermodern
techno contortions. ‘Arrabida’ is an especially successful example of one of
the slower tracks on the album, based around some overheated beats, just on
the cusp of outright distortion, while elsewhere you’ll find variants on an
electropop theme, taking a Depeche Mode-like approach to more conventionally
song-like works such as ‘Albatros’ and ‘Take Action’. Software nerds are
bound to find plenty to keep them engrossed in Powers Of Ten, but beyond the
production gloss there’s plenty of pop appeal to go round too. Ace.
© boomkat

Playlist details :

01 albatros (05:25)
02 arrabida (with mpex on portuguese guitar) (04:56)
03 offline mondays (05:48)
04 shifting sunlight (with tor of deadcombo) (09:00)
05 take action (bonus track) (05:22)
06 locate (07:47)
07 trade winds (05:41)
08 kuiper belt (with leo fernandez) (10:57)
09 migrate (with leo fernandez) (06:58)