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Sebastian Alvarez - Pulsos Temporales Memorias Estables

Label: Test Tube
Released: 14.04.2008
Style: Glitch, Abstract, IDM, Samples

'Pulsos Temporales Memorias Estables' is the second album from SEB here at test tube and this time he made it even bigger than the previous one. Twenty tracks of SEB's trademark 'digital nostalgia' style of clicks 'n' cuts and weird sampling. After a couple of listens, it's clear that Sebastian has been refining his sound. He's more precise and to-the-point when he tries to capture an emotional essence into a track or simply by telling us a story. Most of his new tracks are also smaller and more effective, like a new engine model that consumes less but takes you farther. Some of this tracks work a bit like interludes of sort, filling the gaps between heavier, denser and more mesmerizing ones.

A couple of my favorites are 'Microcranes from jpeg' and 'Transitorio en'. They're both round forms of loop samples put under a warm blanket of nostalgic ambient. Sounds a bit like Animal Collective's craziest tracks if they ever went all electronic, or maybe a bit closer to Panda Bear's latest solo incursion. But SEB is also a sucker for nice beat sequences, and this becomes obvious after listening to 'The fall felt the fall' (awesome title), 'Our meat politics' and 'People vanished too'. Speaking of great titles, SEB has a knack for picking colorful and funny yet interesting titles for his songs, titles that leave us wondering about their true meaning, if any. 'Perra con chompa' is one of the most intriguing ones. 'Perra' must be female from 'Perro' which is spanish for 'Dog', and 'Chompa' seems to be a sweater or similar type of clothing. Pretty weird, huh?

In the end, Sebastian Alvarez offers us 20 wonderful tracks for us to dream about metaphorical titles and the unknown dimensions that inhabit his mind. Have a nice trip. - Pedro Leitão

01 Perra com chompa
02 Esgoto do dub
03 Regulando el aspecto
04 Microcranes from jpeg
05 The fall felt the fall
06 Fake toxoplasmosis
07 Carta goma
08 Same raw riddim
09 Mellowboxcliché
10 Visual aid
11 Our meat politics
12 Wisszz
13 Transitorio en
14 Soon goon
15 Solo rebote un
16 Nourishing logaritmo
17 Aforismo meta
18 People vanished too
19 Sonicasoluble
20 Press nine (bonus)

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