Released in '96 before the shop's forced closure, Web's EP marks the first release for the FatCat label. The work of Japanese artist Takuya Sugimoto, 'EVA' serves up four unique and (literally) staggering tracks of fierce, fluxed-up techno. Layered together chaotically, tracks refuse to stay static, instead wriggling and writhing around in a frenzy of fluid, hyper-mutating motion. Beats collide, sequences and sheets of molton sound slip and slide across one another, creating a simultaneous sensation of hypnosis and hyperactivity.
The riotous title track is all high frequency squeals weaving around, scuttling percussion and luscious sound-loops; 'Gnomon' forms a similary bubbling, restless lava-space, before dissolving into stabs of high-frequency madness. The stirring 'Space Beyond' starts out as a calmer, less agitated atmosphere, before some jerky, scrunched-up percussion, and slowly accumulating washes and sequnces of sound push it towards a dense, multi-layered bliss-space.
“Do you still dream in water?” she asks.
He nods—“only when it rains inside.”
Their words drift, slow like signal loss,, soft clicks between heartbeats.
A drone hums overhead,
its shadow stroking their faces.
“Are we free now?” she whispers.
He laughs, small, broken. “We’re just less afraid.”
They share one headphone,
listening to the city’s pulse—
loops of breath,
echoes of what could’ve been
“Hold me,” she says.
“I am,” he answers,
“in the static.” magoski
The debut EP from thelastsunday gets reimagined by Bed of Roses, who find new shapes and contours in these crackling dance tracks. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 10, 2025
Whatever Lodis is doing here I think it is working. For those seeking alternative realities and life soundtracks. Recommended by Mixmaster Morris. Fuzzy Cogitator