If you have spent any time listening to experimental music, you've likely heard of San Francisco-based Thomas Dimuzio. Even if you've not heard his work, he's likely had some influence on some of your collection through his mastering work. I'll admit that he was always one of those artists that I had planned to pick up eventually, but never got around to it. That's likely to change now that I've heard this release. Here's how the label describes it: 'These four drones open wide rooms for phantastic aural imaginations: like flying over endless grounds of unknown origin, sensing a heavy suction of extreme gravity, moving towards a black hole center... or driving into a totally dark mining tunnel with all the metallic ore and dust around.... These are drones that LIVE from the inside!' Sounds promising, and if there is any label that knows something about drone, Substantia Innominata, a sublabel of Drone Records, would be it. So let's get into it. Like all of Drone's stuff, this is beautifully packaged vinyl (two 10' transparent records, in this case). You're left to wonder what speed to play this at, since I could not see any indications on the records or the sleeve, but after some experimenting, settled on 33.3. 'Haze' kicks it off with a really quiet, gritty intro. The track makes great use of dynamics, giving you the feeling of waves washing slowly on to the shore. Only these waves are not made of water, but of mosquitoes and fear. The dissonance in this track keeps everything engaging. Flipping the record over, we get 'Dust,' which moves at a glacial pace, taking a long time to fade in. This drone is almost peaceful, with bits of sound that enter and exit without fundamentally altering the main composition. The shifts move slowly and you really have to listen to notice, but it manages to stay interesting. Finally, it ebbs and flows slowly out of earshot. 'Flash' opens with subtle grinding sounds that almost sound like distant radio voices over square wave drone. Like the previous tracks, this shifts imperceptibly over time, such that you eventually realize that you are no longer listening to the track that you started with. Also, you never quite know when the track is ending. It starts to fade out, only to return again, then fades once again. Finally, 'Shale' concludes with a much more in your face approach than we had in the previous tracks and with a more ominous feel to it. If this were a movie soundtrack, this would be the point right before the villain released the virus into the city. Pits of percussion punctuate the drone and give a sense of walking in a dark alley. Halfway though it shifts to a static-filled, pulsating drone that it quite nice. Overall, if you like drone music, this is definitely one to pick up. It's limited to 500 copies, so you'll want to get it while you can.