llwll — ALEA IACTA EST
I'm loving llwll's ALEA IACTA EST. I can't even pronounce the artist's name. I got to it through tokyona, one of their albums.
It's firmly in that breakcore, drum and bass category, rooted in that tradition. Like tokyona, it has a chaotic, frantic energy. There's something simultaneously hopeless about it, but it also feels like music you'd listen to while ascending to the supercomputer in the cloud during the singularity.
It evokes Neuromancer, the way the book keeps moving: it starts in a cyberpunk slum, then they're flying around the globe, then they're in space, and it ends up at Villa Straylight, where the Tessier-Ashpool family keep their AIs, Wintermute and Neuromancer. It all moves so quickly that it's like they're ascending.
What's a little different here is that it's darker. The heavy bass lines take it somewhere less whimsical than the tokyona album. Which is a weird thing to say, because that album is already pretty dark and a bit more serious.