Heterodox Records’ labelhead Production Unit Xero combines the intimate and the immersive on HTX 147 Ambient Diaries vol. 1.
Heterodox Records’ Production Unit Xero may be best-known as a builder of worlds, wielding IDM, industrial music, ambient, and jungle to conjure strange, cybernetic worlds full of magic, mystery, and dread. PUX works equally as well on the small-scale, though, delivering colorful, poetic, surreal soundworlds in miniature.
Recorded over the course of a misty winter in Portland, Or., Ambient Diaries vol. 1 is Production Unit Xero at his most personal and introspective. These four longform ambient compositions run the range from the austere sci-fi soundscapes of ambient classics like Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works or Pete Namlook’s FAX +49-69/450464 label to more dark ambient fare like. Worlds within worlds within worlds, Ambient Diaries 1 will take you places, then take you away.