“(All) Tied Up” by SamXVI is a Trip Across Time and Space to a the Trance and Deep House Rave That Should Someday Be

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SamXVI and Hennesy are working on a year long project to integrate photography and music with twelve pieces overall. The second of those is “(All) Tied Up.” It’s like a walk back the mid-90s and early 2000s with its blend of breakbeat, IDM and the more experimental end of trance. Vocals function as another musical component alongside the others like a processed sample to give the track an ethereal connective tissue within which seething, lightly distorted synth gyrations flow, bouncing yet clipped blips keep time alongside the shuffling percussion and sonic features streak through the track or sit in the background to suggest a sense of space and time in one’s memory but one that is coming to you from a dream. If one could go to simultaneously an acid house night late in the era of that movement at a secluded club and a deep house warehouse rave instigated by Gregg Araki, that would be the vibe of this enigmatic and engrossing song. Listen to “(All) Tied Up” on Spotify and connect with SamXVI at the links provided.