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Alloy: Intermetallica

Alloy’s music is placed in the early morning comedown phase of a trance party, atmospheric beat music focused on sound layering. It’s fiddly and tricksy, with what sounds like deliberate meter-level clipping and vinyl static folded into the rhythm beds. Alloy is the nom de groove of Tom Ludvigson, who has a long and varied
history of music making in NZ. (He’s performed with Rick Bryant’s Jive Bombers, Greg Johnson’s Bluespeak, Trip to the Moon and is a music
performance tutor at MAINZ.) The instrumental tracks employ guitar phrases and the like but many are held together with muted keyboard bass. The instruments are pulled back to avoid any short sharp shocks. Arrangements twist around a consistent 135bpm central tempo, subtle tones and timbres revealing themselves and ebbing away. This suspends the listener in a sort of womb-like dreamscape not a million miles from Pitch Black's less dubby excursions. The subliminal stealth approach allows you to drift off and detach from the cold mechanics of reason.

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