It's not experimental – at least, not in the obvious sense as the songs definitely have a shape, and form, and as such, it's not really ambient either, especially given the strongly rhythmic elements that run through the majority of the tracks. Not that the rhythms are all straightforward four-four time beats; the beats stutter and the rhythms morph and mutate, just as the sounds overlayed and spun across the beats also curve and refract.
Mystical Eastern flavours are infused within the atmospherics of the opener 'Walksol,' before the listener is led through darker, sparser terrain in the eerily quiet 'Defekt'. Hypnotic beats and rolling drones reminiscent of early DAF are topped with bleeps and blips and incidentals that lass through like zephyrs on 'Alaise', and the title track shudders and shimmers, throwing unpredictable sonic shapes in all directions at angles to the surprisingly head-nodding synthetic rhythm that borders on disco.
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And so Moebius steers the listener though a carefully-arranged sonic maze, am aural adventure, the final destination of which is never clear until The Clangers take over on the final track, 'Rusto & Monotron', a sparse space-age soundscape that slowly fades to the close.
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