Working the back-end of polite Bay Area
glitch
, San Francisco's
Freescha
deliberately shaped
Slower Than Church Music
from a crate of
Arovane
,
Boards of Canada
Diagram of Suburban Chaos
, and multiple copies of
Aphex Twin
's
Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2
, but the record didn't suffer much for it. Instead of sounding boringly nostalgic or characteristically unbothered, these songs were warm, approachable, and well-contained mixtures of prehistoric
techno
and modern
micro-house
, like fantastically underplayed miniature
soundtracks
to some lost '80s computer movie. ~ Dean Carlson