KK.Null — Ergosphere

Ergosphere is a serpentlike beast of an album that twists and turns through complex beatscapes, noise eruptions, machine-chilled melodies and later on hazy ambient flourishes. But beware: like all serpents, it has fangs and will often ripping into you brain with caustic gusto.

The album is split up into two parts, the tow parts are then indexed into smaller parts for convenience. Part One seems to me to be akin to a journey into a vast city. The first few minutes conjure up been sped through a landscape on a sleek, speeding modern train. As the landscape flashes by your window, you get glimpses of decaying and graffiti-ridden building carcasses and eruptions of rubbish on yellowed vegetation. Old machines long broken, their metal limbs coated in rust. But as you move closer to the city, the buildings become slicker, every angle lit by painful white light. As the track goes on you find you self wandering the city's concrete and steel innards, people whiz by on strange hovering transportation, older stone cut buildings in the shadow of skyscrapers that cut up into the clouds. The first part really does sum up what it would like to navigate through the city, with all its hectic sights and sounds.

Part Two begins in a more creepy ambient tone, it feels like your now out in the country side, the air is thick with the smell of sulphur. Trees seem bare of leafs some trees also are growing in and out of rusting structures, branches erupting from falling down building frames. Strange black vegetation streaming out of jagged remains of windscreens of long ago crashed cars. You come across water mass, but they seem far from tranquil, the surfaces cut by odd angles of collapsed building structures. The water seems to be always hissing and suddenly exploding, spurting 10 foot high geysers of black liquid up into the bleached sky.

All in all an enjoyable and varied textured sound ride, that will have you head spinning. Without doubt of interest to those who enjoyed more structured noise, experimental electronics and more active ambience.