Lokai comprises Florian Kmet and Stefan N’meth working with a variety of guitars, prepared instruments and some stuff to bang on.

Recorded in Vienna, the music represented on “Transition” doesn’t sound menacing or foreboding. It’s mostly laid back electronic based compositions. The duo, though, does work up a good deal of tension on ‘Panarea,’ ‘Bruit,’ and ‘4 AM.’ Even given portions of each aforementioned track, nothing should terrify listeners.

“Transition” is academic in a number of ways: sampling anything possible, looping it and layering percussion snatched from any piece of metal laying around. But that doesn’t mean the disc is inhospitable. In fact, due to the immense amount of space left in each one of these tracks, Lokai almost presents itself as an ensemble focused on the spacier elements of IDM.

This isn’t Prefuse 73, of course, but what Kmet and N’meth are able to figure musically encompasses everything from the divine British avant-gardists to some new fangled, computer toting, head bouncing rap fans. There’s not a beat anywhere to be found, but if there was, it wouldn’t be difficult to imagine an emcee taking advantage of this – ‘Vovler’ specifically. Maybe Lori Scacco is touchstone, Maybe not. But this is just thoughtful music, conceived in a lone room somewhere in Europe.

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