- Kohei Matsunaga's illustration on the sleeve of Strange Audio Dreams' debut, for upstart Turin label art-aud, shows several faces intersecting with fleshy surfaces and thin, Escher-esque boxes. The routes that Error Design take aren't quite as circuitous as the line drawing, but it delights in odd detours. On "Error Design #1," a moody synth sequence is fused with a breakbeat canter and engines that either purr steadily or zip on by. "Error Design #2" takes a different path to find the same mood: a slightly dystopian yet wistful setting, soaked in an ambient bath of soft white noise and obscure film dialogue about a desire to "talk in Technicolor."
The two remixes of "Error Design #1" are somewhat straighter, Cardopusher's especially. His take on the original winds the synth more tightly and swaps the dreamy breakbeat for a stiffer Chicago house frame. It quickly gets to where it's going, but the trip could've been more interesting. NHK'Koyxen's remix supersedes the wanderlust of "Error Design #1" and gives the drums some weirder pieces to juggle. Lo-fi bleeps roll across the track like a dropped bag of marbles, and a crude buzzing sound weaves in and out of the well-organized mess.
TracklistA1 Error Design # 1
A2 Error Design # 2
B1 Error Design # 1 (NHK'Koyxen Remix)
B2 Error Design # 1 (Cardopusher Remix)