Another Tympanik release fresh to the dissecting table is the French electronic music project Zeller, with 'Turbulences,' an aptly named album. Zeller fuses space music with complexly programmed Industrial percussion, and does it very, very well. If ever an album could be called 'Futuristic Industrial,' it has to be this one. If this is the future though, be afraid, be very afraid. The depths of space are very cold indeed.

'Turbulences' is a helter-skelter starship ride through a wormhole in the spacetime continuum. The exotic matter of the particles of sound employed along with the propulsion of percussion jettisons the listener through universes at warp speed. Although there is a lot going on in the spatiality is incredible. Sounds don't compete with each other; they compliment and buffer each other to maximum effect. There is cohesion to this work that makes it compelling. You can easily get lost in it. Some tracks might be ideally suitable for a video game.

There is a quite a bit of echo effect on some sonic elements, but appropriately utilized, enhancing the cosmic ambience. Sometimes the percussion resembles that of an alien machine, while other times is some of the most effective IDM techno-industrial I've ever heard . The shifts in atmosphere are sometimes striking; just when you get acclimated to one environment, another comes along and sweeps away the previous. Nothing is ever static. Motifs are simple in a Kraftwerkian sort of way, but not kitschy or trite. The sophistication of form and construction is remarkable. At every turn there is something to dazzle your aural perception. The music is sometimes reminiscent of Future Sound of London; could this be Future Sound of Paris?

While many of the sounds may be things you've heard before, you've never heard them put together quite like this. Maybe if Amon Tobin was to drop acid and then ride Space Mountain at Disneyworld a few dozen times, he might come up with something like 'Turbulences,' (and I hear he's working on a space album) but Zeller beat him to the punch, and this punch packs a wallop.