Bleep

Knekelhuis glance back at the past with Transition Vol. 1, only to find in these vibrant ambient techno and lightly industrial tunes a shade of bittersweetness. Across the catalogues of the four artists featured here — ADSR, Cacophony 33, Drome, Zen Paradox, all predominantly active between 1992 and 1994 — a trajectory from post-punk and EBM to the utopianism of rave culture reflects the hope felt by the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the thawing of the Cold War.