Other notables, essentials and classic visionary film excursions provide the backbone of this deepening and growing audio experience. Disc closes out with a couple of nice, pure ambient pieces. Starts out with a piece that could have been on Bloody Tourist, thrumming acoustic drums and chanting sanskrit singing in the background overlayed by electric and static hues,coming and going in strange rhythm. Exotic, as David Toop would say, some Morrocan bazzar come through the speakers in a disconnected ghost voice. Remixes thereof anyway, twelve tracks of varying density but with unfailing rhythm and tribal vibrance that makes me repeat again the connection to Shinjuku Thiefs 'Bloody Tourist', this could be the CDEP to that work as far as I'm concerned.
Thunderstorms break outside, rain patters on the Prague streets.
Each track is accorded a scene. You could listen to this record over and over again and never soak it all up. So much detail, such a rich layering of sound, space and imagery. Those who appreciate classical music, or professional instrumentation period will flip for this disc, but it also has the cinematic air and space of a darkambient excursion like Lustmord or Kerovnian. No other artist has made a collision of the two so listenable and intense as Shinjuku Thief.