MI5 - Experience

[1995]

A DJ Crystl alias MI5 did just the one 12". I Can't Understand/Experience was maybe the last great thing he ever recorded after a stellar run of 12"ers from 92-94. This is a heavier yet more spacey sound than usual. Sometimes the drummage with the double kicks goes toward a metal style or somewhere a bit like ex-metal ambient dub of Scorn. There's some vocal science with a a haunted female(?) so disembodied that it feels lonely. Like it's out on the precipice alone, cold and coming down. Yet there's a warm ambient synth and womblike sub-bass comfort. An inherent paradoxical aesthetic was always part of the charm of ambient jungle but this is definitely on the darker side of darkside.