Hanetration's identity is shrouded in mistery and this circumstance - I'm pretty sure he/she/it contacted by email a number of selected reviewers all over the planet - jointly with that intriguing aura of mistery evoked by all tracks of the sonic titbits included in this ep (available for free) could be a nice self-promoting trick to rise interest on his/her/its stuff. Haughtiest reviewers could have thought so at least. It's even possible some listeners who pay attention to its name could think he/she/it could be someone terrified by a "chinesization" of the world where all purchasable arable lands will be cultivated with rice or soy or where "R" will be abolished from every dictionary and death penalty will be imposed for its usage as Hanetration could sound as a reference to the massive market and society penetration of descendants of Han dinasty, the biggest ethnic group in China and supposedly on Planet Earth! Such an interpretation could even be supported by some listenable signs and sounds, close to some Chinese musical instruments (for instance that sort of hypnotic drone "wrapping" the sonic space in the third track "Rufus" sounds similar to a processed erhu, a notorious kind of two-string violin as well as that disquieting babbling bubbling in an ocean of chings and muted rattle-drums in the initial Rex could be imagined as coming from some Chinese stammerer!). As I sometimes consider such an esoteric exegesis not so indispensable to appreciate electronic music, I say the most relevant aspect is the musical one as Tenth Oar demostrates its author knows quite well some ambient tricks so that he manages to tickle listener's mind with reversed loops, subtones, processed sounds, bunch of hypnotic frequencies and muffled rhythmical syncope, being my favorite moment of the release the second track "Alarm" where he/she/it floods the sonic space with amniotic fluid so that listeners will easily be grabbed by the lulling tension of this suspensive drone.