Leftfield House & Techno

Toby Tobias – Second Stimulus b/w Synchro Surfer / ESP062

image cover: Toby Tobias - Second Stimulus b/w Synchro Surfer / ESP062

RELEASE: Second Stimulus b/w Synchro Surfer
ARTIST(S): Toby Tobias

REMIXERS:

LABEL: ESP Institute / ESP062
GENRE: Leftfield House & Techno
RELEASED: 2018-04-06
BITRATE: 320Kbps
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 34.66 MB

TOTAL TRACKS 2

  1. Toby Tobias – Second Stimulus (Original Mix) (08:56) / C♯min, 123bpm
  2. Toby Tobias – Synchro Surfer (Original Mix) (06:12) / Amin, 127bpm

Total Playtime: 00:15:08 min

Toby Tobias has a lengthy history of disturbing the peace. This is his second offering for the ESP Institute. On side A, ‘Second Stimulus’ stirs shimmering staccato chords, roaming pipes and detuned robotic sighs into quite the disorienting stew—the loose arrangement remaining fragmented over 9 minutes of touch-and-go 808 programming, picking up a pseudo bassline assembled from sub toms, introducing a gritty break loop and eventually blissing out into oblivion. With side B’s ‘Synchro Surfer’, Toby plays with the notion of suspense by gently teasing a muted kick and percussion rhythm under washes of white noise, bleeps and sirens that are tape-dubbed and which, over time, begin a dialogue with each other, as if the machines have declared mutiny on the garage. Toby continues to stretch his limits with his output for the ESP Institute, possibly headed toward a full-fledged devolution of conventional dance music. These two songs may have you arrested for public nuisance.

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