Yage – Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy Logic

Runtime: 4:29

After the sore thumb of ‘Livin’ for the Love‘, Fuzzy Logic returns to the more atmospheric roots of side A for its closing title track. ‘Fuzzy Logic’ is up there with the ‘Papua New Guinea (Dumb Child of Q Mix)‘ in terms of the most experimental pieces released during the group’s pre-Virgin era, a weird, sinister piece of dark ambient techno that owes almost nothing to dance music, even its steady 4/4 being distorted and pitched far higher than usual. A more sinister companion piece to the EP’s opener ‘Quazi’, the track uses the simple kick drum as scenery on which various effects and loops are laid, from shouted, muffled voices to tribal percussion loops, unsettling strings and splashes of white noise. Closing on a collage of reversed sounds and further muffled voices that could easily have come from a 1994 ISDN show, ‘Fuzzy Logic’ is a forward-looking track that puts paid to the idea that all of the group’s early work was simple rave music.

Credits
Composed by Dougans / Cockbain.
Recorded and engineered at Earthbeat Studios 1991.
Mixed and produced by The Future Sound of London.