E.A.T. - E.A.T.

E.A.T.
E.A.T.
Echo Libero
Germany, 1998/2025
LP

It’s amazing what slips through the cracks—and especially what turns up again. A linear structure of release schedules & time-bound trends hardly lends itself to the polymorphous, switchbacking trajectory of experimental music writ large, where something like this CD from 1998 can arrive before its moment does. 

The work of two members of the dubby post-punk group Dunkelziffer and cellist-turned-acid-techno savant Boris Polonski, E.A.T. combines a globetrotting, third-eye-dilating mysticism with electronic beats and digital sampling techniques, hitting upon a timeless tribal electro sound from an unexpected port of origin. More importantly, it’s seriously GOOD, from the flute-laced, Middle Eastern-sample-dropping opener “Avinda Rose,” through the sidewinding acid squelch of “3Eat,” to the proggier downtempo of “Mysore 4” and the slow-burn techno trip of closer “Noon.”