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Ambient Sunday is brought to you from 70 million years ago. What we call the Late Cretaceous period for Conchoraptor from Tensen Park.
Tensen Park is from Amsterdam, Netherlands and dabbles in “Experimental, ambient, dub-techno, IDM, breakbeats.” Here’s a track from new album Futurebeats. The explanation for the title makes me feel ancient with its evocation of the early 2000s as some dim and distant past. Sigh. Tensen Park explains that “The “future” in futurebeats refers to that utopic feeling I had as a child playing video games. Games were infinitely interesting, the new games looked prettier, etc. It’s that youthful 2000’s feeling of infinite computer possibilities. Futurebeats blends these things that were so prevalent during that time: utopism, imagination, playfulness, jungle, breakbeats and blissing out on psychedelic electronic sounds from the computer.”
The track is Conchoraptor. I assumed this was a made up title. Wrong. It’s a real oviraptorid, the name meaning conch plunderer as it is understood to have been a mollusc eater.
As a track it’s a dreamy but wheezy affair. Beats are spaced out, the air is filled with throbbing and woozy sounds. This is a far off psychedelic dreamworld. It’s a bit Ambient and a bit IDM. It’s a bit early Burial but without the garage beats.
There’s also something ineffably alien here. The sound of far off world with their strange calls and burbles. Sounds bubble and gurgle. A wonderful cheese dream of sound.