(Ampersand Etcetera) My New Happy Star by Daruin (Japanese, 006) slowly evolves and modulates ebbing and flowing pulses crackles buzzes and humm in Need long sounds, while active blippy sounds skitter over an edgier base in Need movement.

(Taped Crusaders) Mr. Kazuya Ishigami is a man of many parts, it seems. I'm particularly interested in this Noise Work Shop he has going. But the project at the moment, Darun, is laptop electronics. Hissing, buzzing, perfectly formed laptop electronics. That crisp in-your-ears sound, as examplified by the first track "Need Long Sounds"; this is almost classic now, in that the software and influences to creat such material in so widespread its getting to folk music level. Im all for it. This is great to trance out to and for me in particular I dig the low-level, almost polite distortion of the thing. It slides and winds around leaving a hissing trail in its wake even as it mutates. The next track "Need Movement" does not much deviate from the previous, although rather than one long sound going through the motions hes content to alternate between the virtual synth oozing away, and lots of nice dark and quiet-to-the-point-of-loud gurlging and grunting samples crash and drown in a swamp of bubbling primordeal matter. Feel it ooze and tide over you. Upfront crackles and cracks buzz penetratingly, the primordeal matter doesnt even shrug. This track does change and create new worlds and sounds on the way, all upfront and digital-clean of course. If "Need Long Sounds" is a meditation, "Need Movement" is a journey through varied terrain, sailing the seas of primordeal matter, noting vast digital trees collapse, hearing strange forms of life communicate in electronic bleeps, and finishing much too quickly and suddenly for my liking.