About this item

Siccar Point is the second album release from Intertoto, and is a study of the geographical extremes on the east coast of his native Scotland. The eight pieces of music on the album serve as vignettes portraying this ancient headland, while also acting as an allegorical reference to the pioneering work of Scottish geologist James Hutton, who proposed that geological features are not static but undergo continuous transformation over indefinitely long periods of time.

With this theory — and the striking landscape — in mind, Jamie Coull, aka Intertoto, imagines tectonic forces through tension, space, density, and texture. Divergent and convergent boundaries are realised in different moods throughout. Siccar Point opens with the irregular drift of Raw Lunar Concrete, a track that undulates asymmetrically, pulling you off balance before settling into the pulse of Condor Launch and Cloud Chamber — the more veiled club moments of the album.

Further into the strata, Siccar Point mines deep into the dense textures of Metallic Veins and Redox Dub, before closing with the cascading outro Foraber, shimmering with tones that imagine a view outward from the rocky promontory — beyond the vanishing point.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: A delightful companion to the deep aquatic dub-techno of Basic Channel & Deepchord and the dub reductions & static hiss of SKRS INTL & Dub Surgeon.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Raw Lunar Concrete
A2. Condor Launch
A3. Cloud Chamber
A4. Restore
B1. Fold (ft. LabLab)
B2. Metallic Veins
B3. Redox Dub
B4. Foraber