Plo Man's is a listener of tomorrow. Few like him, and like his nebula mother, Acting Press, manage to decipher the language of this mutant decade. His is one texture Spumosa, crossed by soft waves and perceptive states altered by cerebral glitch. So far the architect of three ep, each one icon, a trip in orbits parallel to the top of the Club-culture More avant -garde, dreamlike and otherworld. Its language finds full incarnation also in dj-set: “TT Vol. 1 – Plo Man + The Moons of Saturn” of 2015 and “Returning to Earth, Only to Leave Again” of 2018 are testaments of the New Wave electronic, a bubble ambient-techno Housed for inorganic slowdowns and psychotropic compounds reformulated for the trajectories of cyberspace. They are mixes that breathe in the hypnotic flow of traces never published, perhaps generated by the Plo Man himself or emerged by the Acting Press tunnels, without the authorship being never really revealed.
“Ge1 Tape” continues this journey, a new astral hybrid of Amber-Club, post-Idm, Cyber-Dub From fumes of Jah and microchip planted in the eye bulbs, between distorted interference of alien voices and echoes lo-fi by Rhythm & Sound. Perhaps there is no radioactive magnetism that pulsed in those mix of the ten years. A good set, moreover, is one storytelling which takes place through emotional stratifications and sound visions, a spiral of drones and beats that shapes a mental state. From this point of view, “GE1 Tape” once again manages to articulate a speech that does not seek the track impact, but a more internal resonance, an echo in the limited rooms of the mind.
With the piloting cabin on tilt and a handful of quantum pills, one realizes that not all sound digressions maintain the same gravitational force. Or maybe it's just that Plo Man has accustomed us too well, and now every new message seems to us a minor fragment, but no less valid, of its constellation.
30/04/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
