Galaxian

Galaxian aka Mark Kastner runs his own Doppelganger Records, where he has released two of his albums. More recently he collaborated with DJ Stingray on the Dutch Shipwrec label. And now he mixes up heavy industrial influences with IDM and electro to create some high impact sonic weaponry. This new offering on Lower Parts is an arresting affair that operates at absorbingly high speeds.
‘Internal Colonies’ opens things up in spaced out fashion, with cosmic lifeforms and restless machine lines all journeying deep into the cosmos. The title track is darker and heavier, with frazzled and searching synths and tough hits, ‘Token Gesture’ is a tightly coiled track with serene ambient breakdowns between pulverising drums and ‘Impossible Promises’ layers up skittish drum patterns and blurring synths into something frenzied and paranoid. After the techno stomper that is ‘Malice’ things close down with a mournful ambient piece that sounds like the end of the world.