With just enough glitch to make this stream of beats unlikely to bore, Brisbane based Ryan Gobbe, aka TwoTone, launches into a minimal progression of ambient laced digital harmonics with his first solo album. Despite the often at times wandering nature of the album, Gobbe manages to instil enough atmospherics into this unique ten track gem to allow the listener to settle in and enjoy the movement of the pieces as a whole.
From the tap-click inspired opening track “Soft-geometry” to the scratchy dynamics of the
camera-shutter influenced “Pentax Zoom”, Cinecity progresses through a land of sidereal beats and the sighs of stuttered down-stepped techno.
The somewhat repetitious frame that many minimal artists often fall into is nowhere in evidence here – and it is obvious that a great deal of thought has been put into giving the album a sense of variety induced space. Taken individually, the tracks on this album may not have enough charisma to be able to stand alone, but as a whole they shine. As definite hangover material for the Sunday afternoon glitch-dub aficionado, Bug Records gives us a solid release of fine Australian electronica with this outing.
