Based in Vienna, producer and musician Zanshin covers a broad, diverse and at the same time homogenous range of crafty electronics and playful synthesis based structures and beats, sound research with balls. While his recently released „The Humdrum Conundrum EP“ also touched dancefloor terrain and had tinges of poporiented vocals, this album is an ode to the freedom of not getting caught between two stools. It sounds as if Autechre and Dimlite are trying to melt Toblerone in the CERN particle generator in order to muffle Miles Davis' trumpet with toffee quarks, the resulting wormhole sucking Burial, Plaid and Supersilent on the back of a Tortoise right into a subterrenean Monolake at the foot of the Eiger north face.

Zanshin regards himself as a border crosser, working ingeniously with reminiscences of Dubstep and Electronica, interweaving heavy hip hop beats with filligree field recordings, complex harmonies and emotional depth - as if all components were elegantly fragmented on a microscopic level and rea