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- Summary: Tim Hecker and Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin collaborate on the first volume of SSTUDIOS, a series of collaborative releases on the Software Studios label.
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- Record Label: Software
- Genre(s): Electronic, Ambient, Pop/Rock, Experimental Ambient, Glitch
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MojoDec 17, 2012If the initial listening experience challenges, long-term exposure unfurls Instrumental Tourist's full beauty. [Jan 2013, p.91]
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Nov 19, 2012Their warring improvisations are intriguing, unsettling and often exquisite.
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Dec 19, 2012This is music that needs to be felt rather than simply heard.
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Nov 19, 2012And while there's no percussion in any conventional sense, the likes of "Uptown Psychedelia" jerk manically to their own spasmodic rhythms. Yet where those tracks are marked by an almost feverish nervous tension, from "Racist Drone" onwards Hecker and Lopatin seem to drift into an almost tranquilised state-one which strays closer to ambient clichés.
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Nov 19, 2012Instrumental Tourist is an attempt to cleanse the listener of "urban discontinuity" and experience the world as a passenger (something that's lost on a generation so used to being in control).
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Jan 29, 2013While wildly uneven and far from either's strongest work, Instrumental Tourist does have its moments of inspiration.
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Nov 29, 2012Quality though it could be, if only the vision wasn't so occluded.
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