The short description of this work, "Shimmering and lush electronic music with undercurrents of minimalism," is appropriately dead-on. Electric Ladder is a cascading, lush audio environment which combines smooth, ambient tones with surprising, electrified instrumentation. Each piece naturally unfolds the way you imagine that it will--but this should not imply predictability. Instead, think of each track as a rung on the ladder. The rhythm and evolution of each layer moves exactly the way you feel it should, as if it is reading your intuition.
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Rich creates a stunning work here. The album though filled with plenty of primordial "glurp" has a very clean sound to it- not clean as in production quality, though it is- but clean as though some creature has crawled from a swamp, been cleansed by a torrential rain and is now reflecting starlight on its obsidian skin. Futuristic and primordial at once. It pulls from all of Rich's works and I think it is a real zenith of his works to date.
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