The Hardliner [discogs.com/artist/175772-The-Hardliner / 20kbps.sofapause.ch] says:
Mauk Tenieb \"is presenting us with a 45min illbient album/tape which amalgamates a plethora of images, influences and inspirations. [...] Can't help seeing images from Blade Runner. Deckard tiredly gazing at the score on his piano. Roy and Pris in the Bradbury Building. It's but one evocation though, and Mauk Tenieb's album is lush with them. Murky bars some decades from now, where robot pets scurry around rugged looking patrons. The sand haze in the Texan desert where, just like that, William Burroughs might appear to you in a dream to let you know that... We'll let you find out for yourself.\"
Between — let's say — early Muslimgauze, also David Lynch, Vangelis, a very tired György Ligeti and William Burroughs being stuck for years in a filthy bar of Interzone. And Mauk Tenieb's visual creation — yes. Initially designed for art exhibitions. Over the years influencers: Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze, Scorn, Dälek, Ipecac Recordings, Ligeti György, Skiz Fernando aka Spectre, DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, Kourgane, Eths, Ihsahn, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum — warm and constant acknowledgement. And special greetings to Marc at http://www.nowaki-music.org and Jonas, https://20kbps.sofapause.ch.
