wang inc. – woods roads (context)

i got this album 2 days before going to dis-patch festival in belgrade this october where wang inc was performing. so, i hadn’t heard the full album then, except the one or 2 tracks i played in my radio programs. than during my stay in belgrade i dedicated one of the nights to listening the album. i decided to to this right after seeing t.raumschmiere and kid 606 live. you can imagine how exhausting this night actually was, so i fell fast to sleep before actually finishing the whole album. then the next day i saw his live performance. i wasn’t surprised. despite not having heard the album with full concentration i had some idea of what to expect. a fresh sound somewhat rhythmical and very similar to “woods roads: the premixes”, a single with remixes of the album’s tracks supposedly hinted to the new album. and also quite similar to the typical context sound. rhythmic glitchy electronics over an ambient background. “woods roads” is the second full-length release by bartolomeo sailer who has released on sonig and bip-hop so far. this one is with a sort of contemporary techno sound, if i can call it so. techno but vibrating, pulsating and meandering inspired by his recent road trip across pacific northwest as well as the surreal psychological landscapes in the films of lynch, kubric and jarmush. so we can regard this album as a travel through maze of highways of the mind of wang inc. beware for its very dark there, complicated yet very very interesting. mysterious melodies, deep pulsating basses and microglitches appear while ambient squeak is rolling around like some sort of a strange insect. at the same time the repetitive clicks n cuts rhythm is constantly guiding you. “wood, water and fire“ as the name suggests is a track consisted of water trickling background and constant wood clicks and fire cracklings. there is also just a small amount of mouse on mars reminiscence you can find on track “downhill billy”. wang inc. himself tells that music is useful for better living. so this album, like his music in general, also is useful. it is great soundtrack for exploration, search of new undiscovered places and various travels; no matter if it is in the nature as he prefers, or some urban city or even in some strange hotel while you’re sleeping.