Bleep

Aleksi Perälä probably has a billion tracks out by now (who’s keeping count?), so a record for Clone’s Repetitive Rhythm Research imprint condensing his twelve part Cycles series is a welcome gift. Inspired by The Twelve Ornaments of ubiquitous Chinese symbols and designs, the series delves into gleaming gamelan-esque melodies in confluence with evolving synth lines and the guiding stabs of club friendly beats. Bright choruses of bells and gongs are either thrust into movement by kinetic rhythms skittering from two step-adjacent to microbeats, or revelling in their resonating ambience.