I believe "Raw" - Synapscape's last album - was released in 2002. That makes it three years, and three rather long years. Even though Ant-Zen has released two parts of the "The Incredible Three"-threesome, it's a new album we've all been waiting for. The sounds of Synapscape and Imminent on the vinyl records arn't comparable to this new album and that's what makes "The Incredible Three" only a small inbetween.
Synapscape once again prove to be leader in bizarre rhythms, who do exactly what you don't expect. According to the biographical information and earlier material, it's clear that a large part of Synapscape's songwriting is based on performing an 'attack on expectations' and therewith creating hybrids of songs that combine several genres and ideas into one. Some songs kick off as an expectable song, in which the regular 4/4 beat will be maintained and all noise/industrial clichés will be brought back to live. It is however an amazing variety of drum'n'bass influences, weird electronic loops and usage of pounding electronic percussion that manage to rebuild each song into a combination of several genres. "The Hoe", for example, combines a nearly techno-ish breakbeat with Aphex Twin-like keys, but always combined with a certain tension that cannot be described easily. A comparison with acts like Needle Sharing or Panacea goes a a bit too far, but it does show the influences included on this record.
It's clear this isn't an easy piece of work, where everyone can lay their hands on easily. I've read about a comparison with Proyecto Mirage, but that's kinda awkward, even though the first minutes of "Sonique" might confirm this. It's however not maintained on the entire album and isn't even followed by the rest of the song. "Kollberg" turns out to be an ambient masterpiece and after the first three minutes of "Soundcheck" it's not really clear whether Synapscape or Telepherique wrote this. As mentioned before: this is a dangerous hybride of various genres, combined into one vicious, d'n'b like assault on industrial music. Fans of all related genres should like this.
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