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A cross-continental collaboration with Brighton, England's finest purveyers of sampled and synthesized rhythms tones and melodies: In The Now. Austere generated sounds, In The Now provided structure, and this four song EP is the result. Tweaky clickity clacky chuckiness over spacey, wavey, swoopy backgrounds. It's got a beat, so you can bug out to it.

Samples & Reviews can be found here.

You can order a copy through the Hypnos Online Store or from CD Baby while supplies last.
More information on distance available at Discogs.com.

Reviews:

"Too short! I do love a good groove; this has lots of 'em. Drums should be fucked-with: too many people trigger sounds, then let them decay w/out editing. I like how the percussion here is filtered, keeps a repetitive groove from getting too static. More!"
— Forrest (SunDummy)

"A 4-track EP with enough quirkiness to drive you insane (in a good way.) Overall this is a nice pace considering the barrage of techno/electronica out these days. The EP stands out on its own, if only to strive for a different sound."
— Jack the Tab (Ambient Review)

"This is an interesting CD. Most of the tracks have a disjointed sound to them, but in a good way. There's a heavier beat on these tracks than on other Austere albums. I would imagine that's the result of their collaboration with ''In The Now.'' It's the kind of album that I recognize as good [...] when in the mood to listen to it, if that makes sense."
— Marcus (from CD Baby)

"This isn't ambient music at all; you can't ignore it, and if anything it's good head music (thus the problem with how brief it is.) It sounds tight and expansive, large yet accessible, and is amazingly produced as are all the projects Austere is involved with... and unlike their ambient works preceeding this, this is a release that not only grabs your attention, it demands it and doesn't let go until the CD ends. To try and describe the songs does not do them justice. My guess is that either this is one of those wonderful gems that will lay buried, never to be discovered, or something that years from now someone will find and wonder how they managed to miss it but will marvel in how far ahead of its time it was when it came out, and probably still will be. Hats off to In The Now and Austere for creating something this reviewer can see is truly a "classic" in every sense of the word. Hopefully others will have the good taste and fortunate to discover it as I have...
by Wayne Dolman, Scintillating Spelling Bee
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