The Creative Technology Consortium

Melvin Oliphant III aka Traxx convenes with Andrew Bisenius and Jason Letkiewicz on a substantial 2 hour haul of synth and drum machine improvisations that mostly shift their collective focus from the club to ’80s soundtrack styles with immersive results primed for sci-fi thriller fantasists. While some cuts are applicable to the club, as with the pulsing Italo-techno-disco of ‘A Retro Vice’ and the cranky slug of ‘Catastrophe’, the Suicide swag of ‘Complicity in the City’, or the crawling arps of ‘Know Your System’, the main thrust of the album is atmospheric storytelling or the sort one might expect from Carpenter soundtracks, Tangerine Dream’s work on Michael Mann flicks, the Videodrome soundtrack, or of course Jan Hammer’s ‘Miami Vice’ motifs.

Strafing the same sort of impressionistic celluloid half light as Legowelt and David Kristian, or James Ferraro and 0PN’s vaporwave foundations, it’s all proper fuel for overactive imaginations who are still smitten with that epoch when synth music bled into the mainstream with irrevocable effect.