"The album opens with the moving, majestic first track Epuscollider, built on sensual edited vocals and racing IDM beats. Since their album release on France's GOOOM, moughqual have contributed tracks and remixes to countless artists, establishing themselves as one of the very few Japanese electronica duos whose name carries weight worldwide — and now their new work 'Val de phybotictz' is complete.
Here, through meticulous sonic processing of synthesizers, they thoroughly generate 'sounds that shouldn't exist in everyday life,' then lavishly fold in organic essences such as field recordings of daily sounds, classical piano and acoustic guitar.
By placing the three elements of melody, bass and beat along the time axis with an exquisite sense of balance, the two poles of a thick, muscular low end and a sensual, edgy high end spill out of the speakers with a three-dimensionality you feel you could grasp in your hands.
It's an album that reads like moughqual's own answer to the shifting tides of technology — and to a saturated, formulaic electronica scene.
By relentlessly pursuing the functional beauty of dance music, they have brilliantly updated post-clicks dance music! Here is a new brand of superb dance music that locks the listener in completely and lures them into a fourth-dimensional world!"