Stabiles

nother chapter in the history of minimal techno makes itself known to the masses. With the release of STABILES, American Stewart Walker dashes the notion that only those of German descent can wreak imaginative new havoc in the realm of the glitch-beat. By mid-2000, a number of North American electronica practitioners were steadily making names for themselves. Walker marches right at their forefront, breaking down barriers.
STABILES pulses in concert with the techno turbines of Detroit, retaining its urban grime, but coating its rhythmic contours in layers of liquid mercury--these are rhythm and synth tracks that can only speak in half-tones, crackles, wheezes and stuttering pings. Techno this stuff might be, but it's techno for those drowning in a sea of lithium. Walker wrenches his music away from the stiff gridlock of mainstream dance music in the creation of truly new hybrids. Call it beats for the bold, electronica for the eclectic--either way, STABILES might well remain the talk of the town long after the obligatory copyists have faded from memory.|