Shifting Values by Neinzer

"Shifting Values" walks the line between heavy, otherworldly, hypnotic techno and gauzy, acid-washed dream spaces. By utilising an often tense and unstable approach to sound design, the EP juxtaposes tamed noise with huge flashes of melody, joy, and power.

We dive in with heads-down intent on the opener "Traum’a". Deep pads and percussive flurries shuffle below detuned piano keys, bringing an almost jazz-like leaning to the dance. Next, we lean back with "Nabi", where Neinzer flexes his electroacoustic influences and explores tone and tension by melding a natural palette of human sound with synthesised pressure to create a unique and destabilising piece."Rassalin" brings the machine funk and slows things right down with dizzying effect, deeply swinging its way with gritty force through a trembling landscape on the brink of collapse.

From here on out, Neinzer shifts his previous beat-led focus towards something more psychedelic and exploratory. On "Hebdamu", we find flourishing swathes of freeform melodic beauty building and building, snaking around the precise percussive hallmarks of Neinzer’s sound world. "Shifting Values" ends with the gloriously dubbed-out experimentation of "Cause Pan Tact Insoluble"—coming off like Adrian Sherwood jamming with Popol Vuh.

The EP was originally available on the Where To Now? Records Bandcamp page but was removed when the label shut down in 2023. It was reuploaded here in June 2024.

My artistic preference is always changing, like myself.