Bleep

Antwerp producer Hans Dens steps up from beneath the parapet for this unsettling and gloomy adventure into swampy, experimental electronica for Further Records. With lo-fi waves of crashing, looping distortion and crunching layers of pulsing, fragmented synths, ABABABABABABAS plays out like an engaging and testing sonic hellscape. Cuts like A-BABA-AL-ONE and BARKS (mega, omega and magi) exercise and kind of electronica with fangs. Oscillating digital melodies with fall apart then grudgingly reform. Thrilling and impossible-to-genre material.