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'maintaining radio silence' is the second release and first album proper by experimental electronica artist ovo lacto. the fog-filled emptiness of 'internal step' opens the transmission, a beautiful yet forlorn miasma of distant blinking lights, minimal static patterns and warped voices. we then drift into ever more abstract territories with 'auditory dream', tonally reminiscent of searching for alien radio signals in deep space. the resulting reverie is awoken by the harsh light of 'colossal man' with its frantic sirens and fractured tech-noise rhythms. unsettling looped alien voices enter the frequency next with 'something illegal', clearing for a simple, melancholic melody of mathematical perfection. the unhappy fallout culminates with the apocalyptic and nightmarish 'war upon us' as the album collapses in upon itself with maddening noise and random fragments of sound. both a sonic vision of the future, and a soundtrack for the industrial dystopia and empty wastelands we call home...evelyn records.

In less than half an hour, Ovo Lacto goes from disturbed post-Eno ambient music to otherwordly interferences from second rate sci-fi movie soundtracks, again to crunching distortions and rhythmical abuses.the delicate, intriguing "Internal step" opening this CD is alone worth the ticket price...Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes.org






		'maintaining radio silence' is the second release and first album proper by experimental electronica artist ovo lacto. the fog-filled emptiness of 'internal step' opens the transmission, a beautiful yet forlorn miasma of distant blinking lights, minimal static patterns and warped voices. we then drift into ever more abstract territories with 'auditory dream', tonally reminiscent of searching for alien radio signals in deep space. the resulting reverie is awoken by the harsh light of 'colossal man' with its frantic sirens and fractured tech-noise rhythms. unsettling looped alien voices enter the frequency next with 'something illegal', clearing for a simple, melancholic melody of mathematical perfection. the unhappy fallout culminates with the apocalyptic and nightmarish 'war upon us' as the album collapses in upon itself with maddening noise and random fragments of sound. both a sonic vision of the future, and a soundtrack for the industrial dystopia and empty wastelands we call home...evelyn records. In less than half an hour, Ovo Lacto goes from disturbed post-Eno ambient music to otherwordly interferences from second rate sci-fi movie soundtracks, again to crunching distortions and rhythmical abuses.the delicate, intriguing "Internal step" opening this CD is alone worth the ticket price...Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes.org



		Ovo Lacto, aka Richard Atkins from Wales. In a short time this is the second disc I have of him, and more than 'The Rubberplant Soundtrack' release, this is a disturbing release. After two relatively mild opening pieces, 'Colossal Man' is a crude techno like track and the other two remaining pieces are hoovering around spoken word samples of unknown content, and are less ambient than the opening pieces, or the tracks on his previous CD...by Frans DeWaard, Vital Weekly