…In a way, the Picture project is all about this kind of study, as applied to the tools of techno. Via careful filter sweeps, unconventional sample arrangements, and canny operation of the left-right stereo image, Dane Natal Zaks messes with the proprioception you’d expect from a tracky club record, as if turning dials inside your skull. Each track uses minimalist gestures to suggest cavernous inner dimensions.
“Quuuuuuu” bolts shakers and white noise to a high-stepping kick pattern, pulls a stuttering synth taut across them, plays catch-and-release with reversed snares in empty air, and sends ping-ponging percussion to reel off in the distance. Rarely does a techno record generate so many action verbs so elegantly.

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