- So, why did Traversable Wormhole go for so long without outing himself? It probably has something to do with starting over. Record buyers, despite their innocent doe eyes and claims of open ears, are a notoriously fickle lot. They see a name they associate with a sound that they don't like, and they're likely to pass it by without a second thought. The same had occurred with Adam X: People had a perception of what his music sounded like. Now those perceptions need to be slightly altered.
Or do they? X's work as Traversable isn't a thousand miles away from the industrial-strength techno that he had come to be associated with. Traversable Wormhole is merely a stripped-down, cleaner version thereof, one built for the headfuck of Cio D'or as much as it is for cutting through the rough and raw Berghain techno of Marcel Dettmann. You can hear both sides on TW's newest: "Universal Time" has plenty of the chiming sonar pings that litter D'or's full-length for Prologue, pulling them together into a compact, driving banger with heart. "Paradoxical Consequences," meanwhile, stutters enough that you can imagine a dubstep DJ finding room for it, and still has enough grinding menace to satisfy the floor at any techno venue in the world.
Tracklist A Universal Time
B Paradoxical Consequences