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Ambient Black Magic
Artist
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
ReleaseProduct
Ambient Black Magic
Label
Hospital Productions
Catalogue Number
HOS498
Release Date
October 13, 2017

Genres

Dank Chain Reaction style dub LP featuring Silent Servant and Substance, peak time waterlogged techno from Prurient under his most shadowy alias.

Following a still-ongoing series of reissues of the earliest, previously tape-only releases from Dominick Fernow’s Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, this long-in-the-making new album proper is an epic 80 minute set featuring additional production and “sound on sound processing” from Silent Servant, a remix from Substance and mastering by Paul Corley. It’s by far the most ambitious and far-reaching Rainforest dispatch, taking that artificial, tropical humidity as a starting point before heading deep into a kind of textured ambience that reminds us of everything from Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock to Carl Craig’s How The West Was Won, from Huerco S. to classic Chain Reaction.

‘Ambient Black Magic’ moves away from the extreme saturation of those early cassettes and the industrial environmentalism of his previous album Green Graves and is described by the label as ‘Fear Dub’ - which is essentially the perfect encapsulation of the deep sense of paranoia contained within. The opening Jungle Is A Shapeshifter is a gargantuan 35 minute head-melter that’s split across the first two sides of the vinyl pressing. Co-Produced with Silent Servant, it’s the most absorbing piece of new electronic music we’ve heard for time - slowly unfurling via chorus pedal guitars that gradually degrade, while a fathoms-deep bass pulse and tape-delay gives the piece its shape. It’s like an updated, tranquillised, fever-dream variant of the kind of ambient dub Vainqueur made his own back in the mid-90’s - we could listen to it on a loop for hours.

Beyond The Yellow-Spotted Bamboo, another Silent Servant co-production, clocks in at a relatively modest 17 minutes and heads off into more open terrain, this time with submerged percussion providing some propulsion, while shards of coloured synth pull you back into the swamp. It’s another humid, breathtaking session - bringing out the best in both Fernow and Silent Servant via perhaps the most important and satisfying work either artist has been involved with.

Praying Mantis Black Arts is another masterclass in sub-bass construction, while Chile’s Crimson Tide is the shortest track on the album, a kind of broken coda before Substance ends the set with a remix of Beyond The Yellow-Spotted Bamboo, deploying a tribal reduction that references classic Chain Reaction from a producer who was part of it first hand. It’s a relatively upbeat conclusion to one of the most immersive listening experiences you’ll have in 2017; those of you looking for escape should dive in - you won’t want to re-engage with the world around you for a while.

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Digital Track List

  1. 1 Jungle Is A Shapeshifter 34:24
  2. 2 Beyond The Yellow-Spotted Bamboo 16:55
  3. 3 Praying Mantis Black Arts 13:14
  4. 4 Chile's Crimson Tide 4:40 Buy

    Chile's Crimson Tide

  5. 5 Beyond The Yellow-Spotted Bamboo (Substance Remix) 7:04 Buy

    Beyond The Yellow-Spotted Bamboo (Substance Remix)

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