Many tracks feel kin to the rhythmic music found on the trilogy, with slowly looping music-box melodies drifting atop gentle washes of synth. Strange as it is to say this about an electronic release, it’s a more organic record than any of its predecessors. Their latest album, Derelicts, also developed its sound from the equipment used to make it, rather than the other way around. “Acoustic Mirror was an early impulse response reverb the thing was probably a little bit early for what it was supposed to do, and probably doing a pretty crap job of recreating an acoustic environment, but when you fed it, for example, a pad and a drum loop, things got really weird really fast-most of the times it just went bonkers and the result was unusable, but with some finesse and the right mix of ingredients, you could end up with some really interesting results.”

Hedberg says they created “VLA” while experimenting with a particular piece of equipment: the Acoustic Mirror plugin from the sample editor Soundforge. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track The full version of “VLA,” released separately, ran a solid hour but a slightly cut-down, 45-minute edit exists. One track from Twentythree, “VLA,” was actually an excerpt of a much longer piece-not unlike the Orb’s endless classic “Blue Room,” the full version of which ran 40 minutes. But on their fourth full-length, 2011’s Twentythree, Carbon Based Lifeforms headed in a much more abstract and panoramic direction, almost entirely omitting rhythm and human voices in favor of minimalist, droning tracks that could seem inert if you weren’t paying attention to their subtle shifts. Many fans consider these albums, released between 20, to be a trilogy of sorts. There were elements of trip-hop here and there, while other pieces moved into zones reminiscent of the Orb, with odd vocal samples popping up amid the gently swishing keyboards. The Swedes’ first three albums as Carbon Based Lifeforms- Hydroponic Garden, World of Sleepers, and Interloper-offered psychedelic ambience, like late ’70s Tangerine Dream with an endlessly ticking and thumping rhythm that wasn’t quite fast enough to dance to but that would eventually affect your resting heart rate regardless. Daniel Segerstad and Johannes Hedberg have been making music together for well over 20 years.

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