mp3: Clark - Gaskarth/Cyrk Dedication (Tape)

this is a curious track on an EP that is marketed as a dancefloor-friendly release, because there's nothing danceable about it, even though it's the best track. it's all gentle chugging percussion, industrial wheezing here and there, and thin melodic figures. there are no hooks or anthems; nothing easy to catch your mind on to. there's no spectacle. it sort of goes somewhere, but it doesn't, really. it just kind of floats there in space.

a major part of what i find attractive about electronic music i find in this song. gaskarth evokes a druggy feeling of propulsion, like when you're in the car and you're looking through the window down at the road lines flying by, but because of the speed the lines aren't flying by but stationary and floating. quivering white stripes in asphalt. you're going somewhere and it sort of doesn't look like it. it's an illusion, but you're ok with it because it's beautiful.