The Neural Abyss – KR3 18

KR3 closes its fifth anniversary cycle with a split EP from Jin Synth and Marco Maldarella that marks both an ending and a new beginning under the theme Death/Rebirth. Each artist takes a side of the ‘The Neural Abyss’ 12″ and offers up distinct yet intertwined sounds that are seriously heady. Jin opens with the dark industrial moods and techno drums of ‘Undersurface’, then offers the more lithe ‘Signal’, which is dubby and pared back. Marcosteps up on the flip to explore the liminal space between dissolution and renewal. ‘Sulcus’ is sludgy and foreboding with brainwave-inducing rhythms, while ‘Demispheres’ is an equally low-key and slithering bit of unsettling deep techno atmosphere.