8 ROLEK-PTAK MECHANICZNY, CDR E.P., 2001, POLAND

Issued on the superb Mik.Musik imprint, the prickly and sharp little curios contained herein come courtesy of one of Poland's premier exponents of experimental electronica. Spare and asymmetrically pulsing aesthetic front and center, Ptak Mechaniczny finds 8 Rolek spitting spare bursts of ping-ponging castanet-like click 'n' clatter that unfurl like lubricated slinkies over a beds of terse little electronic themes. If that sounds typical of late-model electronica culture, it plays rather more idiosyncratic than it reads, sharing some of the same lopsided wonkiness that makes the work of Germany's L@N so fetching.

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