Optimal.LP absolutely radiates with a dazzling blend of precision and passion, evoking a hearty 9.4. Seriously, you’d best be getting over to the 12k website and getting your copy of this masterpiece; it’s limited to 500 copies…
Computer-based it may be, but the digital music on Optimal.lp practically glows with warmth and teems with fascinating – and sometimes abrasive – textures.
a billow of warm smoke slithering along the ceiling.
one of the first instances of properly digital ambient that manages to balance the deep atmospheres of classic artists such as David Parsons, Robert Rich, and Brian Eno, with the recent hard disk malapropisms of Oval, Terre Thaemlitz, and Ryoji Ikeda
Sometimes insect like, sometimes of a more obscure nature but definetly something odd.
Taylor Deupree’s 12k continues with its issues of superb electronics in the Optimal.lp from California’s Shuttle358.
Optimal.lp manages to elude genre from start to finish, employing a poverty of means notable in the context of hybrid-happy electonica. It is remarkable in its expressiveness.
…California’s Dan Abrams gives the 12k sound a smoothing over on Shuttle358’s Optimal.LP, taking the stripped rhythmics of chain reaction artists like Monolake and dolloping them into truffles of cool richness..