Platform 23 Records’ meandering, and sporadic journey continues, digging up archival treasures of known and unknown music sonics. The label’s close association with Paris’ based ‘ethno-industrialists’ Vox Populi! continues, here returning to their most heralded and possibly cohesive album, in Half Dead Ganga Music.

The beautifully apt title precedes their most intense trip, pushing the boundaries away from the percussive psychedelic of albums ‘Mystcitismes’ (1985) and Aither’ (1989) to create a dark ambient masterpiece that flows as one.

The trip transports, via twelve succinct pieces across a ‘Studio Side’ and ‘Live Side’ each, drone and sparse drum machine pulses, vortices, and swirl, but never settling, instead segueing to further hallucinations.