From GM's Canadian stronghold in Oshawa, Ontario, comes this dark hop debut from Britain's Ocosi and their guest Mick Harris. Actually Harris supplied them with beat samples after a joint session was cancelled when Invisible apparently backed off from funding a collaborative release in 1998 (which was much complained about on the late, lamented Dub Terrorist message board). Well, here is a glimpse of what Invisible missed out on, a stripped-down meeting of live funky drumming and atmospheric electronix (similar in ways to Harris' recent collaboration with John Everall).

The duo in Ocosi (recently featured with Mick, SIMM and Everall's Tactile on the EST label's Gone Too Far! compilation) chop and treat Mick's bass drum and snare playing, leaving, in some places, that live-in-the-studio ambience ("Opener [In]" and "Out"). In other tracks, like "Comascene" and "Suck Radius," surreal soundscapes surround the beats like warped space. Ocosi's mood is sparse and industrial, as they lay down a background bed of white noise for "Crave"'s phased breaks, and tweak the analogue synths in an early Cabaret Voltaire-style before the drums' big entry in "Vor-Tec."

[IN] is a fine start for this promising group, who report they have many unused Harris beats for Vol 2.