Brock Van Wey (also known as bvdub) has been spreading his ambient textured deep techno to the world for the past few years with releases on Styrax, Millions Of Moments, Southern Outpost, Meanwhile and his very own Quietus imprint. His love of abstract shapes and forms of electronic music has certainly caught our attention here at echospace, so much in fact, Stephen Hitchell (Intrusion, Echospace) has made his own interpretive versions as an additional album along with the original. This is a soundscape of refined subtle beauty which paints for us a picture of lands yet to be explored, a sonic collage filled with heartbreak, love and happiness all played in the same key. A pure refined sonic collage, filled with influences that could easily be said to border the surface of works bySteve Roach, Gas, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Brian Eno, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, John Cage, or even the ambient works of Basic Channel, and yet, this still has an identity all its own. Beautiful layers of sound rush over you like waves in the ocean, a tidal wave of organics and textures so subtle, soft and virtually hypnotizing. There is a sense of space felt here which cannot be described in words, a sense of displacement which takes the listener out their normal environment and away to someplace else. These spare musical fragments voyage off into the land of dreams, a place where everything appears to move in slow motion and hours feel like seconds. Simplicity in its own world is the most beautiful of things, an art of restraint, not to do too much but do everything at the same time which is exactly what Brock has perfected here. This is a gem of the highest caliber and one we would consider to be an integral part to any ambient or electronic music lovers collection.