title:

sensitive to light

label:

october man recordings

format:

cdr

release date:

26.10.05

cat. no.:

october man recordings {8}

tracks:

yongduam

closing in

"'sensitive to light' is the title of an ambitious 2 disc release signed october man recordings. the first disc features the following talented electronic musicians: phorm, mint, z-arc, octif, zainetica, monoculture, aitänna77, lum, joseph auer, ian baxter and cheju. the second disc features the following talented electronic musicians: aitänna77, boc scadet, monoculture, joseph auer, octif, zainetica, phorm, cheju, october man and aleksander nikov. and they’re all delivering fine electronic music southing to ears and soul. omr8 it might already be to late." - electronic desert, 12.05

"favouring glistening melodies and pristine arrangements over abrasive experimentalism, the 100-minute collection sensitive to light is almost old-fashioned—invitingly so—in its emphasis on concise, through-composed song forms—the sweetly melodic 'made up maps' by october man ('dave' and 'jay' who also head the uk-based october man), a perfect exemplar of the release's warm style. a pronounced ambient dimension presides over its twenty-two offerings with the second disc the livelier of the two (synths snarl and howl throughout boc scadet's epic clanger 'wooded' while a rare sampling of electro-house appears courtesy of joseph auer's 'crystal love'). the material is alternately placid and meditative (lum's 'mvol', octif's sparkling 'tramper', cheju's gleaming 'closing in'), ponderous (octif's 'splinter'), even euphoric, with mint's (boltfish co-owner murray fisher) synth wonderland 'i don't kvetch' a particularly affecting piece of arresting melancholia; aitänna77 also makes a memorable appearance with two sweet acoustic lullabies. on a more aggressive tip, there's joseph auer's latin-tinged groover 'for us', z-arc's 'deimos', a merger of eno-styled synths and electro-funk, and phorm's elegant 'float?'" - textura, 01.06