Review: Lo†Ph - Trinity Dance

The world of Doomcore Techno is under the ground, labyrinthine, catacomb. The plain existence of doomed Techno is barely visible to the mainstream citizens. But some releases stay invisible, even to the Doomcore maniacs themselves.
One of these releases is "Trinity Dance" by the Lords of Phutnture.
And this lack of visibility is intentional.
It was co-created by one of the biggest "anti-stars" in the 1990s Gabber realm.
Yet hidden under an obscure alias, never released on physical media, buried as a "web-only" release by an opaque media collective.

No promotion, no live performances, nothingness.

It's not easy to exactly date the creation of these tracks, but an educated guess would be the mid or the too-late 90s.

Now on to the tracks.
It is a remarkable release. Very different to the main flow of Doomcore.
The tracks loop, drone on, repeat, hypnotize, mesmerize, for minutes and minutes (or hours and hours... in your mind?)

These are seemingly minimalist melos and synths, but done in a very complex, gargantuan way.

In fact, I'd argue this release channels minimal wave, 70s industrial, EBM, New Beat... just as much as it channels PCP and the Dance Ecstacy.

What did Robert Smith once say?
"Sometimes I'm dreaming... while all the other people dance".
Yes, dream on, or dance, dance like Captain Nemo, on the way to nightmarish Slumberland.

These 3 main tracks get supplemented by a cool intro and a hot gabber track.

While the release is still almost invisible to this day, some people indeed did do listen.
It became a release that was whispered about, that got passed around, particularly in the early millennial Dutch Doomcore scene.

I'd assume it had an influence on artists that followed this way...

But, feel free to behold this precious opal, in your own ways, too.