Bleep

Following the ethereal soundscapes of the previous year’s qXn948s, Ivan Pavlov and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson’s SoiSong project did an almost 180 and embarked on the route of song with xAj3z. Influenced by Sleazy’s Thailand homebase, the duo alchemised elements from the Thai language and genres like luk thung into fusions of jazz, classical, trip hop, electronica, ambient, and even post rock breakdowns, creating some of the most gorgeous and arresting music to come from either artist. Crystalline MIDI keys and pulled bass curiously tiptoe between dissonance and gentle melody, mysterious with their staccato jaunts as digital voices contort, an evocative exercise in restraint away from their previously whirring industrial machinations.