Music Review // Machinefabriek "Spelonk"
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/spelonk Slow building, soft whirrs come on to where they are almost inaudible. Acoustic percussion type tones drop in now. Some whistling. This feels very desolate, isolated. Slowly, the percussion follows, like snippets of Phil Collins. A little bit of engine revving comes in now. This feels like you're watching a screen in solid color and every so often a ball will bounce across it in a different color, or a line will form a little wave. Tones come in now which make it feel a bit more dramatic and intense, like perhaps we're finding something we should not be. This ends the first track, which is interesting because it sits at just over six minutes. The next two tracks are both around the 18 minute mark, which means this could be a 36 minute cassette but the first track wouldn't have a place. Slowly building once again as we enter the second track. A little bit of...