Artist Info: Code Inconnu

Austrian group Code Inconnu operate on the cusp of post-rock and electronica, favouring the latter on Spoil, Microbe, a hall of mirrors in which the instrumentalists and their sampled and treated doppelgangers do battle. Occasionally the complexity of the music, with its odd meters and shifting harmonies, leads to a suffocating density. The best moments here see them picking up the technological gauntlet thrown down by Tortoise's "Djed", something most post-rockers haven't thought even to try. [read more...]