Opal Tapes’ Black Opal series juice four cuts of glistening technoid synth music by M. Geddes Gengras in Personable mode. It’s techno-not-techno, effectively, putting an intricately idiosyncratic side-spin on established tropes with whirring hyper-shuffle technique in Gambetti, and a colourful, nervy electro style recalling Gifted & Blessed in Window.
The record’s longest cut, Oyster spreads out farther with exponentially sprawling delays applied to a tangy techno throb, before reining it the groove and expanding the spatial dimensions with an etheric ambient techno oddity, Cormorant.
- A1 Gambetti
- A2 Window
- B1 Oyster
- B2 Cormorant
