Last month we took a listen to the Bristol-based producer Vessel, with his track “Red Sex“, off the upcoming 2xLP Punish, Honey due out September 15th via Tri Angle Records. As we reported at the time, Vessel has chosen to build his own instruments for the new record, and that includes items like flutes made from sawed apart bikes, sheet metal percussion, as well as homemade harmonic guitars. Like on “Red Sex”, this lends “Anima” a more organic feel built around the throb and drone of this acoustic instrumentation. As the track opens, a resonant pattern is repeated mantra-like while the cut’s methodic rhythm slowly bubbles to the surface. Clangs of electronic scree skitter through the roiling sonic protoplasm as “Anima” rears it’s mysterious head in what sounds like some sort of ritualistic procession. By the track’s end, the cut has gone thru several stages of growth, gaining complexity while gathering into an aural storm of rhythm and drone, and while definitely of mysterious sonic origins, techno seems still to lie at the heart of it’s alien DNA.
