Bleep

Sitting uneasily somewhere between excruciating attention to detail and dazed-induced chaos, one-man music machine Acolytes bridges ground rarely trodden in free improvised music. Stress II, his first release on Haunter, might appear as a relaxation tape, but its contents only hint at tranquility through mountains of texture — clipped and manipulated percussion samples here, some indistinguishable chatter there — set to the accelerated beat of our crowded reality.