Roche “Via Portal”
A San Francisco artist who has released tracks via Hieroglyphic Being’s Mathematics imprint, Los Angeles […]
A San Francisco artist who has released tracks via Hieroglyphic Being’s Mathematics imprint, Los Angeles label 100% Silk, and—most recently—SF’s own Icee Hot outpost (a label, we should again point out, is co-run by XLR8R editor Shawn Reynaldo), Roche has passed along a new production for free download. Spanning well over seven minutes, “Via Portal” finds Roche slowly unraveling an array of hardware textures. Led by a hat-heavy rhythm, the tune spends its first two minutes teasing out vibrant synth sequences, which eventually become absorbed by thick, droning chords and further layers of bounding analog notes, ultimately fashioning “Via Portal” into one particularly hypnotic house voyage.
