I’ll be straight up –I’m a fan of R/D’s music and live performances and his newest four track EP, Face of God, continues to earn my support.

True to his Los Angeles roots, each track has a West Coast Hip Hop inspired “wave your hands in the air” melody; but this is no ordinary landscape. These tracks are a multi-pass to an animated digital world of crystalline data packets, cybernetic assassins, and shimmering pipelines of bass. Squawking robo birds make their territorial calls as bursts of sequenced creatures communicate from the deep of their environment. Like Daft Punk bangers, but with much more open space in which to drive.

R/D’s proficiency as a sound designer has gone into hand crafting each hit, each signature pulsing bass rhythm –there are no stock sounds here. In depth instrumentation forces his computer to chisel the future tones it was meant to. Many times you experience a bold use of early 90’s inspired dry stereo sawtooth bass lines that wind up and down your body to usher you through anthemic panoramas of a vast horizon. By design, these cuts are meant to be played live and loud.

Preview all four tracks below and enter your own landscape. Available now through his BandCamp page with a free track to download. Get it!

Read our previous interview with R/D here: http://iamalaser.com/2009/06/16/rd-cricket-ep-mini-mix/ along with his Fever Ray remix of “I’m Not Done”: http://iamalaser.com/2010/03/29/fever-ray-im-not-done-remix/