Here we enter a completely new level of vernacular and speech patterns. First, let's let it be known that the Portuguese language is one of the most difficult in the world to master beside the Yanomomi Indians, Guiaca and Bushmen dialects, with its constant clicks of the tongue and gutteral sounds that actually effect the terse and tense of a word. Inside this idiom, metricks plays with the human speech patterns of a yet to be determined locality, although we here in the Land of Phrygia Speech Recognition and Forensics Lab tend to think it's more simple than we are allowing ourselves to initially conceive. Listen to this track and you'll instantly realize that there is no comprehendable language being transmitted, it's completely benign, yet effective.

Metricks pays homage to an already established alumni of music structure genii, namely Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and the inimitable Angina P. With this concourse, he stretches the imagination with tightly tethered backbeats against a constantly evolving synth spattering which confuses, yet elates. This produces a veritable smorgasboard of tangents where the teeming listener enters and exits reality multiple times in a rather short sequence of events.

The best thing about reverse engineering a sample is that it becomes at once a completely different object of interjection - it produces the sense of wonder and compels the teeming listener to average in his/her mind what exactly is transpiring. "Big Teeth Man" is a grand scenic playground of sonic sculpture that tends to encapsulate itself, yet breaks free of the monotony usually dictated by looped pattern music by its ever so moving manipulations and slap backs. The echoed loops transpond within the dichotomy of the slip and slang beat verses to the point of 88 degrees celsius - incredibly hot, yet cool to the touch.

Another player in the great form of the masters, metricks wishes to atonish with amazing clarity and the music from this man abounds with spastic spontaneity, along the lines of Severed Heads' earlier releases, such as "Spasmotic Crunch" and "The Ant Can See Legs". Only difference here is that Tom Ellard (Severed Heads) would be more likely prone to play with tape manipulations than purely digital concantenations. Metricks instead introduces the advent of the strictly digital domain and produces music that awes yet has a deeply imbibed sense of humor.

Is he serious? You bet he is. Is he comical? Yes, but in the best sense. Is he good? Without a doubt. This is great digital music that propels the teeming listener into an uncharted ground where the sails are full of air. Land is close to the horizon.

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: Photoaster - Hard and distorted beats and a frantic bassline that deviates a bit from your tropical styled music and goes for a more edgy feel. The bass hits pretty hard on my stereo, not bad.

: Color Protocol - this is a pretty experimental ambient song with strange sounds and frequencies stabbing at you from the silence. peaceful melodies swell in and out from behind the chaotic sounds and leave the track in a meditative state.

Land Root - This song is really cool, it has a lot of bleepy sweeping effects coming in and out and a guitar-ish synth coupled with backwards melodies and slow basslines. My favorite of this group.

Impossible to say which is my favorite of all your songs, they really are very good and sometimes get stuck in my head.
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"Arruska Labour Girl " The beginning of this song is very ambient reminding me of the work invironment as the the beat picks up it seems as though it is an escape. The female voices and whale sounds give it a different demention. The lost sound of the echo swirls it around you as the beat drives on. This song is some place between Ambient and Trance. Reminds me of a dream seqence.

John De Boer

Thank you for your submission. I listened to pacific Tropicus. I must admit this is a style of music I've never heard before. It's highly unique and original
I'm curious to know if this is one musician, I imagine it is, I don't belive it would be easy to get a group of musicians together who are all on this same cosmic plane. I know this review seems a little stale, but that music is not at all typical, I say you've really done an awesome job at coming up with a totally different approach. Quite extrordinary.

Chad S

my friend & I never said this I dont think but I really enjoy your music,you are very diverse my friend & cover a wide spectrum of genres..Great music..

OK..i'm going for LEGEND SIN now...Lush romantic yearning feeling..The lady of the lake rising up...Some wonderful string arrangements in this....Strange counterpoint between the main electro riff and those lush strings..Very track..I'll try another later :
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I always listen....

: What Time Is It? - Noisy glitch funk. I like it a lot, I'm guessing it's an intro or something because it's only 1:00 long?

: Good Rest - Very experimental composition, but you still keep the song together with good sounds and beats. Your music is a lot like early Plaid and Jega. All of it has a happy vibe to it which isn't something you get very often with experimental music. Experimental music is most of the time very dark, but not metricks. Good one!

: Loomis Ethnourban Girl - Future Sound of London meets a 50 foot monster that eats them both. Dark tribal-house music! It has a good buildup to the breakbeat drums and bass-guitar sound. The bass kick you have in the beginning of your measures really hits hard and drives that segment of the song along.

Legend Sin - Bright old skool elektro reminiscent of Aphex Twin. This is definately the best song, everything compliments the other sounds and it has a nice melodic and happy flow. I didn't even notice at first, there is no beat. You don't need one here, it's a great song! It just keeps picking up until the end!

: Sara Blue River - More dark trippy house, with a touch of Acid. The bassline in this song is killer! The great thing about your page is the sheer variety of music you have, so many different styles. This track would fit a dark nightclub in a big city very well.
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Action Feed - The music loop that starts the song after the sound effects sounds a lot like someone in the city is playing a radio and you incorporated it into your music. I really like that! Once the hip hop break and bassline kick in I'm totally into it. Your samples actually add to the song instead of making it noisey and chaotic. Besonic for some reason forces me to play lo-fi streams so that's a bit of a let down, but that's not your problem. This track reminds me of the Avalanches and their work with old samples from the 50's and 60's. Risk Passion is still my favorite but this track gives it a run for its money.

waterfoam" - this has a really unique feel to it, I like the echo on the electric piano, sounds really good, also the off beat slap bass works really well. - I wasn't overkeen on the hi-hat that came in on 1:00 - this would work really well on t.v

Big teeth man" - again another nice laid back track, - I like the reversed noises in this track, the vocal samples work great as well.

nice 1

Dave z (ACCOLADE)

streaming Pacific Tropicus...Great guitar? riff...This is a really great quirky track...Full of space and sunshine...Its making me smile for all the right reasons...Love the echo voices...This is a wicked track! Very original too..