MPR001: Inch-time – The Floating World was recently reviewed by Vital Weekly Review:
Stefan Panczak is Inch-time and since 2003 he has been producing music for a variety of labels, mainly Static Caravan and the earliest one where on Lab Recordings. For whatever he started his own label now, Mystery Plays Records, and ‘The Floating World’ is his first release there, and his third full length album. Panczak, originally from Australia, but residing in London, is a man of electronics, keyboards as well as rhythm machines. ‘It was constructed in my laptop with the addition of some acoustic guitar, recorded through a microphone’ and the music is inspired by the Japanese art movement Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world).
The music, ten tracks spanning some forty-four minutes, is that of mellow ambient dance music. Some lush keyboard sounds, electric piano, spoken word samples, folk-like at times, but always with that steady rhythm underneath. Not really a new thing of course, as this fits the Static Caravan catalogue quite nicely, or, say Expanding Records (the beat parts where sampled from vintage drum machines of Benge), but Inch-time executes ten great entertaining songs. Rainy day feel good music, with the right amount of experimental textures in combination with some great melodies. (FdW)
