Vapourspace - Sonic Residue from Vapourspace

To most listeners, it might not sound like the best idea in the world to combine the production skills of techno/ambient wunderkind Mark Gage (aka Vapourspace) with tracks from the catalog of the prog rock Magna Carta label. In fact, neither Gage nor label head Peter Morticelli was quite sure how to approach the idea either, at first. But when they finally did, the results were for the most part quite impressive. Gage takes guitar demigod Steve Morse's "Led On" through a gauntlet of Indian percussion and harsh synthesized semi-quavers, and adds techno grit and a rush of adrenalin to the mid-tempo funk groove of Attention Deficit's "Girl From Enchilada." "Dark Corners" by Bozzio Levin Stevens gets broken down from its jazzy and vaguely funky original into an abstract but still groove-based exercise in dub-wise electronica. Read More