Khotin’s Peace Portal collects 6 shots of serene electronics that open with the aching, angelic atmospherics of You Made My Weekend Wonderful. All synthetic sighs and acoustic piano this track’s poignancy is upped 1000-fold by a lovely, love struck answerphone message, which acts as its punchline. That’s followed by HP-1, an uber-relaxed wash of bubbling, beatific Purelink-like ambient dub techno. With circuitry singing like a dawn chorus Druid Dance then sets slo-mo psychedelic spirals to a shuffling beat and simple melodic b-line.  

Vacation is a hazy, hallucinatory cloud of flickering, fluttering frequencies. A still, calm sea of drone, resonance and sustain that’s rocked by sporadic, seismic bass drops. Glitchy and grainy, the sound design’s like a field recording put under a microscope, but the blissed-out, bionic beauty is sorta satirised by the inclusion of a scam call advertising a dream holiday. The promise of paradise – if you pay. Oasis Biointerference is itchy, fidgety, but mellow, IDM. Loon birds and soft keys countering its busy twists of acidic TB-303 gurgling. The hushed On Heaven establishes itself with elegant, ethereal, echoed chords. Their seductive whispers, together with the far away warbling of an ancient woodwind, dancing to the gentle patter of metallic percussion and distant drum machine rolls. Sonar blips demonstrating its depth. 

Khotin’s Peace Portal can be purchased directly from Khotin Industries. 

Khotin has featured a few times on Ban Ban Ton Ton. Calm, for example, sang the praises of his Ghostly International album, Release Spirit, while I covered his remix of Keigo Okazaki for Onda Bubbles. Now based in Canada, in Edmonton, Alberta, while in San Francisco, a few years back Khotin also soundtracked a project that I was proud to be a part of, Et Al. etc’s …Tomorrow Another Dream Will Start exhibition of Balearic Beat art.