Upland - Monochrome Adventures

UPLAND a.k.a. Knut Andreas Ruud, "the guy who likes to fuck around with beats and sounds and manipulate them and see what the hell happens," is back after five years in the lab.

MONOCHROME ADVENTURES is the completion of a trilogy started with 2002's self-titled debut, where according to Almost Cool "sputtering, chopped-up beats and oddly shimmering electronic tones come together in what seems like almost random patterns, until you realize that it's all part of the plan. It's beauty in the chaos, and while it sounds like a beehive full of mechanical bees, there's a method to the madness."

UPLAND upped the complexity on the follow-up, 2004's OBLITERATED. The Wire wrote that it had "a watchmaker's attention to detail, capturing, taming and framing an infinity of digital fragments, pinning each into its allotted space on the sequencer's remorseless timeline.