What is special about Lindsey Wang’s Timedance debut as Polygonia is the way she transfers her already precise rhythmic language into earthy, bass-heavy terrain. The four tracks feel functional for the club, though too idiosyncratic to be reduced to mere utility music. Fortunately so, because after her recent releases on Dekmantel and Reclaim Your City, no one currently maps the intersection of immersive techno, bass and psychedelic sound design with such assurance.
The title track »Ceaseless Motion« makes this intersection immediately tangible: it rolls and staggers at once – calibrated percussion, scratchy textures and subtly distorted harmonies create a restless but slightly unstable groove. On »Splintered Soul Fragments«, the lower frequencies stretch out heavily, almost viscously, while offbeats and percussive disturbances shift one’s sense of orientation. Here, Polygonia works with physicality, with space for thought experiments. The entire EP consists of a mobile system of pressure, friction and microscopic displacement, as though new anomalies were continuously emerging. Ceaseless Motion is controlled disorientation in a club-music context, with great tension in the details.
Ceaseless Motion
