Ekoplekz Unfidelity

• Ekoplekz – Trace Elements
• Ekoplekz – Nerva Beacon
• Ekoplekz – Robert Rental
• Ekoplekz – Severn Beach
• Ekoplekz – Sea 90
• Ekoplekz – Unfidelity
• Ekoplekz – Coalpit Heath
• Ekoplekz – Pressure Level
• Ekoplekz – Analogue Twitch
• Ekoplekz – Tuning Out
• Ekoplekz – Sleng Zen

• 1. Trace Elements
• 2. Nerva Beacon
• 3. Robert Rental
• 4. Severn Beach
• 5. Sea 90
• 6. Unfidelity
• 7. Coalpit Heath
• 8. Pressure Level
• 9. Analogue Twitch
• 10. Tuning Out
• 11. Sleng Zen

Ekoplekz has previously released on a number of labels, but with Unfidelity the music aligns itself with Mu’s melodic sensibilities and lets the early 90’s electronica influences bleed in, although the album still has the intensely transporting feel that all his work possesses.

The music on Unfidelity has a dreamy, nocturnal feel. It’s perpetually damp, with muffled drums, cloudy dissonance and dubbed-out metallic squalls, it owes as much to King Tubby as LFO, or to the Radiophonic Workshop as Harmonia. Take Severn Beach's slowly building melodies over a bed of broken drum-machine rhythm. It sounds like a twisted memory of seventies TV holding music, or Sea 90's squealing metallic dub. Nerva Beacon is dreamlike: it’s nervous pulse holding together a tense journey with an underwater feeling. Coalpit Heath is a skewed take on Jazz, with a delicate melody finding itself enveloped by rain, dubbed-out shivering fx and bubbling drums. Meanwhile Pressure Level is almost dub techno, mercilessly delayed melodies and noisy squall over a low dub bassline and a barely there drum kick and Tuning Out runs with Kosmische melodies and blended noise. The album finishes with Sleng Zen's rich orchestral chords, pattering drums and dubbed bleeps.