Loris S. Sarid & Innis Chonnel - Where The Round Things Live

Cassette - green tape with folded riso insert in clear clase.

Loris S. Sarid, the fella you'll recall debuting with the beloved Music for Tomato Plants cassette in 2020, shows up again, this time in the company of Innis Chonnel, with a collection of electronic excursions that 12th Isle reckon originate from sampling mic-ed up objects found in a woodshed and were later developed in a horsebox. True or not (and i've no reason to believe otherwise - to my knowledge, horsebox electronica is yet to become a fetish, though the year is still young), the result plays like a bucolic rendering of IDM squarewave ebullience and characteristic 12th Isle electronic neologisms. There's likely a circuit of some kind being completed here that goes from Sakamoto to Aphex to Music for Adverts to the Wave Notation Series to Scotland 2022, and what it loses in the transitions it gains space for itself. Loads of character and ground traversed across these seven tracks (do i even detect some Stereolab-like exotica in Sanity Beach?), making Where The Round Things Live sound impossibly cheery, playful and fun in a way electronic music in the last few years rarely has.