Consumed

Consumed turns minimal techno into a study of what happens when almost everything is removed. Plastikman runs long stretches on barely enough information to orient the ear, then makes one small change carry the weight of an event. The severity can be exhausting. That exhaustion is built into the design. Nothing else goes this far into subtraction; nothing else asks this much for it.

Hawtin turns the volume down and the record gets heavier. Long stretches where almost nothing happens and the almost is the whole point. One of the very few minimal albums that works at home without becoming furniture.