KPLR strips down acid techno like it’s never been stripped down before. These are the grooves machines use to get down. Everything has been removed: no beats no hand claps, no nothing really but the absolute essentials of acid techno. Other groups have been exploring acid techno, trying to really take it apart (No Fun Acid being one of the more prominent ones, Mark Fell’s Manitutshu being another) but this is concentrated acid techno. Considering its relentless experimentation it is actually quite a bit of fun to hear the raw sounds and inputs, sounds that normally don’t get a large degree of attention.
Melodies can be found in this morass. You have to pay close attention. The grooves become so repetitive at times that the tiniest change becomes noticeable. “Tny Mzk” makes that extremely apparent over the course of nearly nine minutes, as tiny noises give off the impression of melody. Little sounds bounce off of each other, as if they were positively repulsed by one another. After “Tny Mzk” the album begins to make a bit more sense. “cirkuit rn #2” possesses the most straightforward approach as the beginning groove is kept mostly intact. A weaker emphasis on the higher pitched tones also makes it a good place to get introduced into the aural environment.
This is very bare acid techno. Don’t expect anything like a rave-up, that’s not what this album is about. Rather it is an exploration of what’s often considered a more ‘low-brow’ sound. KPLR shows what goes on when the circuitry is left to its own devices. The resulting patterns make for a surprisingly engaging experience.
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