Serial Experiments Lain – Biometric 02

Just as late-90s anime Serial Experiments Lain made vague the fray of network and psyche, Biometric Audio’s EP tribute blurs the very circuitry of techno itself, lining up a global cast: London veteran Jamie Bissmire unpacks data-driven paranoia on ‘Motoko’s Map’; Linear System sculpts crystalline voltages on ‘Crystals’; Prisoner’s ‘Myosin’ fuses muscular tension with slow-burn propulsion; Pure Basic & Fael deliver the mesmeric shimmer of ‘Tayri’; and Sleeparchive closes with the ghost-in-the-machine throb of ‘Project 2501’. Mastered in the Netherlands by Andrea Merlini, pressed with recycled vinyl in Italy, this record nominally and practically spirit-traps the eerie intimacy of digital consciousness turned sound.