From Rian Treanor "Obstacle Scattering" out 19th Feb 2021 on @planetmurecords https://planet.mu/releases/obstacle-scattering/

Rian Treanor’s “Obstacle Scattering EP” arrives in a flurry of disorienting rhythmic bursts and de-purposed rave hallmarks. The four-track EP follows the Yorkshire producer’s acclaimed “File Under UK Metaplasm”, an album that welded elements from the UK’s sprawling dance music history with genre-breaking sounds from further afield. Here, Rian goes straight for the jugular with four tracks assembled specifically for the dancefloor.

Playing with “the idea of sound being an obstacle that you have to get your body around,” each track on the EP presents a suite of complications for adventurous ravers. ‘Obstacle 1’ folds the influence of SND into a hi-nrg singeli framework, simmering lush FM synths in a broth of tangled kicks; ‘Obstacle 2’ was written for Rian’s set at 2019’s Aphex Twin-curated Warehouse Project and distills his early obsession with Planet Mu in hyperactive squelches that deftly flit between brutalist glitches and ear-pummeling bass. Meanwhile irradiant chords continuously refract a bouncing 4×4 groove on ‘Obstacle 3’, subtly shifting the focus as they alternate and interlock. Closer ‘Obstacle 4’ switches things up once again, deploying the idea of pause and effect with staccato stabs that follow whirls of modulated synth.

These four obstacles are DJ tools with spikes – selected grooves that don’t fit anywhere except together, mapping out Rian’s constantly-shifting relationship with both the club and the legacy of boundary-pushing dance music. They feverishly demonstrate the outer limits of a streamlined sonic palette, devastating speakers and dancefloors in equal measure.

Obstacle Scattering

Rian Treanor - Obstacle 3

Even in these times when it seems that being visible to the world is the most important thing, what is best displayed in anonymity also subsists, what remains gray to the target of the virtual eye, indiscernible to the ear trained to judge.

There are substances that taste better when they are discovered little by little and without the need for overconsumption, a portion of them is enough to reveal the value of their meaning.

There, in the sea of primeval reality, in the origin of numbers and statistics, there are lives that are invisible to the great eye, lives that are only known through conventional contact, treasures reserved for those who understand the imperceptible, for those who observe through empathy.

To become visible to the eyes to which we have become invisible.

Become visible.
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Rian Treanor - Obstacle 3

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