Emit Ecaps

Emit Ecaps is Astralwerks' most spatial record, Spacetime Continuum building ambient techno with an unusual sense of three-dimensional space and depth. It's a record that feels like architecture, sounds placed carefully in a wide field, and it's one of the more sophisticated ambient statements from the American scene. It ranks at a hundred and ninety-one because it's a refinement of a sound rather than a new one, but the spatial craft is genuine, and it rewards attention on headphones.