May 18, 2023
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Topdown Dialectic - Topdown Dialectic
Topdown Dialectic - Topdown Dialectic (2013)
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This write-up is unusual. I couldn't find much information on Topdown Dialectic or their 2013 self-titled project---the artist is anonymous, and the album itself was cassette-exclusive until 2022. And this isn't a Natural Snow Buildings or Burial situation, where the mystery inspires bloggers to blog, so basically I have nothing.
Typically in these sorts of situations, I don't do a write-up at all. But this album is so good... It's like an equal and opposite reaction to Deepchord: delicious minimal techno, crafted intricately from bursts of misty noise, but bright and sheer in all the places Deepchord was dark and opaque. Where Liumin was music for people taking red-eye flights or working the graveyard shift, Topdown Dialectic is music for skylight-lit bathhouses and tucked-away indoor pools. It's quickly become one of my favorite electronic albums.