Upon Cycles by OOO (ziq080CD)

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Opening with all the impetus of an inspired video game, Nick Raftis' planet-mu debut is a dense cluster of various sounds so over polished it sounds like a hyper-real recreation of i.d.m. similar to Chris Clark's Clarence Park or 09's schematic premiere. 000 isn't afraid to treat the braindance melodic stuff with a touch of irony, forgetting all the pastoral cadence found in Twin or Mu-Ziq with out resorting to breakcore to keep you a-tuned. At least on most tracks, some of the middle filler tracks lose Nick's voice but are still good but a little generic electronica. What makes Upon Cycles such an addictive listen? In a world where a million copycats per second are pushing their Warp clone tunes onto zebox.com Raftis breaks with the stresses, syllables, and pronunciations laid down by idm's holy trio to make his own regional lisp on the entire enterprise.