Rod Modell is one of the heavyweights of dub techno and its most complete souls. Recently landed at 13, sublabel by Silentes, the American known above all for the Deepchord and cv313 projects, has added a further layer to his enormous discography made up of smoky landscapes and introspective lands, whether expressed by the opaque beat of the techno drum or in its ethereal nuances. As in the previous “Northern Michigan Snowstorms”, and as in the entirety of his career, the soundscape explored is the misty one, almost an emotional and impressionistic transposition of winter sweetness.
And between one ambient escapism and another comes “Frequencies In The Fog”, yet another piece of infinite harmonies on minimal electrical variations, belonging to a nature with slow and stratified movements. The work is composed in two untitled movements, both about twenty minutes long, which decline, perhaps too much, on the same notes reiterated with the slowness of a meditative act, in which everything that happens around becomes a digital embroidery with dub movements, between crackles and chords that adorn that same sound texture in every possible way.
The architecture of the songs is more or less similar, almost mirror-like, with each section lasting approximately three minutes and which redefines the canon previously exposed according to new coordinates. What emerges is a work that is perhaps among the least compelling of an extremely exciting discography.
02/17/2026
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
