Tapage - Recover
Review
Tapage is back with “Recover”, an album of lost ambient songs with glitched textures that encapsulate raw emotion, featuring remixes by artists such as Access To Arasaka, Klunks, and The Fellow Passenger. Locked away on a corrupted disc for years, these long-lost relics have been rediscovered and rescued, a musical time capsule offering a rare look into the artist's creative process. The songs are presented much as they were found, a raw unpolished collection of developing ideas teeming with potential.
Recover starts off with Test, an ambient intro track with minimal clicks and cuts that eases you into the building pads that make you feel like you are floating. The intensity of the glitches builds and then come to an abrupt stop introducing the next track 114120All. A ethereal soundscape sets the tone in addition to an angelic melody that is accompanied by satisfying glitches and stuttering breaks.
The following track Begin, is more on the dark side, with eery droning synths that make your hair stand on end, and shuddering thumping breaks to accompany. Able To NSet is one of our favourites, with a more upbeat mood, twinkling melodies that envelop you contrasted with the industrial clanks and thuds and fast paced glitches,
Ancient Tiger Proton (feat. Access To Arasaka) is up next, starting off with subtle ambience and fluttering flutes, it then catches you off guard as it explodes into a deep, crunchy and industrial textures. Tapage continues with his vision to merge complicated, harsh rhythms with dream-like atmospheres to create a unique dynamic that is virtually impossible to ignore.
