Clips from DSK036: A Taut Line - Distraction Provisions released worldwide May 5th

Artist: A Taut Line
Title: Distraction Provisions
Label: Diskotopia
Release Date: 5th May 2017
Cat: DSK036
 
1. m15ntet
2. Purest Health2
3. Hatsudai
4. Arriving at the Lake
5. A Perpetual Medium
6. Carbon Joy
7. The Soft Touch
8. Natural Lawson
9. Hyacinthoides
10. FebruarySnow
11. Intertransmission
12. Estado Encontrado

Following on from last year's SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL presents the RaggaPreservationSociety EP, the first Diskotopia release of 2017 is the 3rd solo album from label co-founder Matt Lyne under his A Taut Line moniker.
 
More familiar to some as one half of Greeen Linez, Matt Lyne has also been producing very different sounds as A Taut Line for well over 10 years now. Distraction Provisions is his 3rd album release after 2013's Nitriding Portrait and 2015's Mutual Prints.
 
Initially not made to evolve into an album, the early workings of this collection were emotional reactions to the bleak social and political situation that unfolded throughout last year, and you can hear expansions of some of the more listenable of these sketches on tracks like Estado Encontrado, m15ntet and Arriving at the Lake. However, as desolate as some of the moods are on here, last year was one of intense mixed emotions as Lyne's first child was born, and there are also moments of sheer beauty, joy and redemption on this album too – the lush-yet-grainy pad-wash of A Perpetual Medium and the luminous tropicália syrup-tech of The Soft Touch being two examples that reflect that.
 
As residents of Japan are particularly aware, when two tectonic plates, or warm and cold air masses collide, there are very adverse results. When conflicting temperaments clash here, the product is the brutal choler in tracks like Purest Health2 (originally titled: A Taut Line in a Lairy Stress) and the weird dismantled hardcore-dying-at-samba-parade mess of Intertransmission.
 
Other notable tracks include the bleepy rave-tempo chalk dust electro number Hatsudai - although made as a tribute to those in the underground tirelessly keeping the declining Tokyo club scene alive (in the face of it being asphyxiated by industry players self-congratulating their own relentless mediocracy) - curiously illustrates an unexpected sense of optimism, albeit murky and dripping in paranoia, that does stealthily lie in places throughout the album. This same optimism can be found in the locked middle section of FebruarySnow, even though frozen in the centre of metallophone-led icy dub-techno melancholy.
 
But how to characterise the album as a whole in one effective soundbite? As Philip Sherburne wrote in Spin Magazine in 2013 of Nitriding Portrait - "What kind of music is this, exactly? Half a dozen listens in, and I’m still not entirely sure." - although Distraction Provisions has amalgamated mutant remnants of house, jungle, jazz funk, industrial, and new age 4th world neo-classicisms, once again, we're still not entirely sure either.

Distraction Provisions

A Taut Line - Distraction Provisions

Tokyo based British producer. 1/2 of Greeen Linez. Runs Diskotopia label with BD1982 and Am Rhein. 



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