It is interesting to see this melting pot of tastes and styles from such prolific experimental artists and it sure makes for an interesting listen.
It's an enjoyable detour, one that affirms how well these producers have honed their approaches to sound.
Tourist moves like the soundtrack of a sci-fi movie, in which the nomadic main character moves carefully through undiscovered terrain.
They’re driving excursions through wastelands of synthy noise, and though Instrumental Tourist inhabits those same realms, its pace is more leisurely, its pulse dulled.
Instrumental Tourist offers more proof that these two are undisputed masters in their field, regardless of how necessary a collaborative effort like this really is anyway.
Instrumental Tourist is an attempt to cleanse the listener of "urban discontinuity" and experience the world as a passenger (something that's lost on a generation so used to being in control).
Tourist could have benefited from more calculation and an emphasis on the things that have paid dividends for these guys in the past.
As an experimental rumination on what these two might be capable of should they collaborate further in the future, Instrumental Tourist is an exciting experience for fans of either artist, let alone both.
Too often this record is, if not downright poor, then simply stodgy, unappealing
I rather thought this would be too niche even for me, but ended up pleasantly surprised. Instrumental tourist is the result of a jam session between two icons of the ambient scene, and winds up quite cohesive for the improvised sample chop-shop it is. Daniel Lopatin would probably be widely known to this site as the name behind Oneohtrix Point Never, though in my squalid little corner he's more well known as the legendary creator of Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1, the foundational text of ... read more
Did you come here as a fan of Tim Hecker or of "Uncut Gems" film composer Daniel Lopatin? Because either way, this is an underrated set that's a fair and balanced mix of both artists' styles, so worthy of a much higher score.
1 | Uptown Psychedelia 5:58 | 76 |
2 | Scene From a French Zoo 5:00 | 72 |
3 | Vaccination (For Thomas Mann) 5:52 | 72 |
4 | Intrusions 4:53 | 69 |
5 | Whole Earth Tascam 5:01 | 72 |
6 | GRM Blue I 0:51 | 56 |
7 | GRM Blue II 5:49 | 60 |
8 | Racist Drone 5:40 | 72 |
9 | Grey Geisha 4:18 | 76 |
10 | Instrumental Tourist 3:20 | 76 |
11 | Ritual for Consumption 4:45 | 68 |
12 | Vaccination No. 2 3:13 | 72 |
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