Review: Deep and expansive fresh techno from the spiritual music purveyors over at Siamese Twins, one of few imprints in the genre to operate out of Bangkok, Thailand, and to offer a distinct electronica/techno sound rooted in Thai traditional music. The label's latest record, their tenth release, sees an outing from musician and performance artist Tul Waitoonkiat; 'Nueng Kamtham (One Question)' distils a potent alembic of poetry and atmospheric modular builds, enlisting the grouped production of a star cast of producers such as Black Merlin, Sapphire Slows and Sleep D to aid the task. Following up Waitoonkiat's groundbreaking interdisciplinary work 2553, which responded to the 2010 military crackdown in Thailand, this EP channels a similarly earnest energy, its lyrics calling on celestial escapisms and existential themes, pondering the essential dialectics of silence and imagination, privation and creation, suppression and emancipation.
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