Jade vinyl

Jade is sold as a response to Pan Daijing's previous outings - and by that they mean intense, tense movements that make you feel something is impending, but we're never quite sure what. Dark, surreal, and often unnerving sonic places that seem to be completely removed from time itself. Elements are clearly born from electronic techniques, but often the atmospheres involved feel archaic, born in ages when demons were not to be trifled with.

The artist has certainly put a lot into the recording, crafting tracks that do away with traditional structures and introduce layers of drone, vocals and strange percussive accents, the combination of which makes for an almost spiritual experience, the kind of work that conjures images of flames dancing off stone walls, strobe lights disorientating in the thick darkness, and alien messages. If that's not too abstract a list to content with.

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