Patrick Walker, aka Isodyne, releases his new five track digital EP 'Dreams Torn From The Sky' with brooding intent for Broken20. A member of the feted Forward Strategy Group, Walker is no stranger to praise, his work garnering favour and DJ support from the likes of Surgeon, Luke Slater, Marcel Dettman, Peter Van Hoesen and Donato Dozzy.

Dealing with rough, sub-aquatic bass and hazy indistinct sound textures, Isodyne's is a sound defined by absences: the lack of hook, lustre and obvious tropes define its character as veiled threat rather than overt aggression. 'Dreams Torn From The Sky' delineates the middle ground between Broken20's hitherto experimental restraint and FSG's savagery; meeting halfway allows Walker to turn his eye to personal tastes in sound design, influenced by artists such as Murcof, Fluxion and James Bernard, while broadening the spectrum for B20 to encompass its most upfront release to date.

Opener 'Burn It All To Ashes' lingers with woozy brooding intent, before dub washes emerge from the shadows to provide texture, if not respite. 'River Of Ruin' feels weightless in comparison, eschewing meter at first in favour of half-speed pulses, before a solid groove provides the ground for apparent perpetual midrange motion.

'Sentinel' has a classic feel, applying a vice to the Berliner echo chamber sound and wrenching pathos from it, allowing freshness and lightness of touch to come to the fore. 'Answer To No One' is firmly in techno territory, showcasing Isodyne's ability to tough it out with the best when required; nonetheless, the signature aspects of attention to detail and development throughout song structure still dominate.

Broken20 label boss TVO's remix closes out the EP. His mammoth take on 'Sentinel' is a hyperactive collision of Detroit wiggle, futurist soundscape and the sort of soporific, morose chord sweeps that fans will recognise in an instant. Moving through technoid fission and ambient ohrwurm, it's a thirteen minute long reminder of this producer's considerable power.

Walker has said that 'Dreams Torn From The Sky' is rooted in the memory of “growing up in a small village in Scotland,” which “can be a grey, hazy place with typically silvery skies and misty water-scapes; perfect inspiration for this sort of sound.” Many of the components that provide body to the EP come not from synthesis but from sampled sound, creating a what he calls a 'hyper-visceral' experience. With 'Dreams Torn From The Sky', Walker constructs an abstract within reality's confines, and, in so doing, provides a window to his, and his machines', soul.