PRIMUS MOTOR

Record label

Shipwrec

Catalog Number

SHIPLP08

Release Date

January 22nd 2018

Genres

Techno

Tracks

play	pos	title	artists	duration
play_circle_outline	A1	HOLOMORPHIC FUNCTIONS
play_circle_outline	A2	GLITCH PRIMES
play_circle_outline	B1	POLYMATH8
play_circle_outline	B2	GOLDBACH NUMBER
play_circle_outline	C1	MILLS CONSTANT
play_circle_outline	C2	E TO THE PI I
play_circle_outline	D1	RIEMANN ZETA FUNCTION
play_circle_outline	D2	EULERS LUCKY NUMBER

"Primus Motor" sees Ekman return to many of the sounds that gained him a reputation as an artist on labels like Bunker and Berceuse Heroique. Although harsh bucking acid lines, pockmarked notes, brutal beats and eerie echo are all present, a new tone has been added to the caustic palette. A psychological nuance, an undercurrent of the inchoate has been investigated and exploited to chilling effect. Crippling psychoses. Debilitating neuroses. Physical pain. Suffering stalks this first full vinyl album. Sinister sounds encircle the eight offerings, hovering like vultures over inhospitable plains of ashen grey, jagged peaks and dark sweeping swamps. Hope is all but drawn away in this bleached audio landscape, drained by sheer synthlines and reduced renderings. Amidst the sorrow and strain there are pin pricks of joy, albeit bleak and pallid ones. An album that unnerves as it engages, a collection of icy radiance and industrial indifference from a dutch master.