Vancouver B.C.-based Pacific Rhythm has been charting their own course for over a decade now. Khotin's New Tab was a crucial early release and they've put out other killer stuff like the Space Ghost's Private Paradise and Jesse Edwards's C-Thru project. They do top parties as well, check the insta if you're ever up north.

Unknown Mobile is Levi Bruce, an artist and musician working in Whitehorse. It's not every day TP gets a record emanating from the Yukon. Whitehorse is the capital of the northwestern province, sitting just a wee bit over the border from Southeast Alaska. I've had the pleasure of visiting, and it really is a special place. We took a seaplane from Juneau. People are involved in all kinds of art and things.

Levi's previous outing as Unknown Mobile, Daucile Moon, was formulated from old MIDI files found in a Geocities archive and brilliantly spliced with ambient textures and guitars (the latter courtesy Mike Silver/CFCF). Now we have a set of pieces organised around field recordings from Whitehorse and elsewhere.

As a regular traveller to Southeast Alaska, seeing a track with a title in Tlingit language piqued my interest right off the bat. "Jilkaat Heeni" (Chilkat River) is just one of many places evoked in these nine moods spanning the globe--from a vineyard in Portugal ("Touriga Nacional") to a hotdog stand in Gothenburg, Sweden ("Korv Kiosk"). Bleeps and brats? Indeed. At times evoking Echospace glacial techno, it's a brilliant trip that you want to experience in headphones, coming back and discovering new layers each listen. Nice.

Field Work is out on Pacific Rhythm now--head to their Bandcamp HERE