Clark
Death Peak

The usual things, the usual exquisite class. Clark is among the standout names of Warp, which means techno for people who investigate the mystery of the blue stone in very crowded, slightly ambiguous, and dark strobe places, or for leaden folks who, however, are into the futurism and all the musical isms in the privacy of their fine intellectual audio systems.
Presence of echoes of reality, like female voices, but if you're savvy with these things, you understand that maybe they are field recordings of streams, which guys like Clark then dissect and interpolate wave by wave, sequencing them on intricate rhythmic patterns that, basically, between a hi-hat cut and a deconstructed and reverberated roll taken from a jazz drum set, tell you move your ass stoner don't you hear it's a four-four? About how so much poetry can be generated from software - I think he still uses Ableton, our guy - and two, at most three pieces of hardware, I will remain, each time, with every release, a boy at heart.

What's particularly here? Still style, but from someone who definitely helped define that style. If you like Jon Hopkins, to name a famous one, expect to find here an update of his happiest rhythmic/harmonic solutions, which Jon develops in the long format of the piece, fitted on Death Peak in short forms, because they are more frequent and varied, handled with the master’s composure.
First part: techno and doing bad with style. In Peak Magnetic there's a fuzzy bass that wo, and in general Clark does not skimp on basses, perhaps like never before. In Hoova the arpeggiator chews your synapses. So doing bad like Boards Of Canada when they do bad, that is, with a lot of poetry, but with more oomph.
Second part: open the structures to what you generically define as electronics because it sits between the digital hallucinations of OPN, with sudden bursts of too many bpm, and more song-like ambient.
The ideal watershed, the integrated system, is Slap Drones, which, due to its ambivalence, is placed along the groove of the perfect electronic pieces tradition.

Enjoy it at least in flac, save up to buy yourself the watts. Always think that if this is art, then you can enjoy the state of the art and perhaps even a couple of steps beyond; if it's just craft and tradition, then take this hit of historical-avant-garde fine craftsmanship.