Dol-Goy Assist

Having spent his formative years in London listening to hardcore techno and drum'n'bass on pirate radio stations and regularly visiting the now defunct Ambient Soho hunt, Williams began experimenting with electronic music in the mid-nineties. After years of solitary work, he sent demo mini-disks to a variety of label and got noticed by Skam who rapidly offered him to feature on one side of a split EP in their Smak series. Since, Williams has released two more EPs (LMW Motors and Cyriak Parasol), a Japan-only CD-R split EP with long-term friend Myles Haughton (Duplo_Remote), and a car air freshener.

Dol-Goy Assist expands on the beautiful soundscapes, crunchy beats and clean-cut melodies of Williams's previous releases. Quinoline Yellow shares with Bola and Boards Of Canada an affinity for fluid sound constructions, but Williams's sharp angular vision gives his music a slightly more mechanical feel. Each composition is assembled with great precision and expertly produced. The shadow of Autechre is sometimes felt slightly too clearly (Liddingstick in particular is very reminiscent of Eggshell), but this hardly affects the general impression created here. Sealed, which opens the album, is a fascinating sonic jigsaw, which appears to constantly materialise, only to evaporate almost instantly, while Tradmarc9 is vintage electronica at its best and Offgroundtouch and Plotreturn reveal hidden orchestral depth. Although Williams explores here a variety of moods, this album remains extremely consistent all the way through, evolving along clearly defined melodic and sonic threads.

Beautifully crafted and put together, Dol-Goy Assist is an extremely convincing and elegant debut album. If Williams sometimes appears to stick to his formula a tad too rigidly, his subtle sound layering and attention to details, combined with heart-warming melodies, ensure that this album delivers again and again.

This is a rather anticipated release due too the fact this is his biggest collection of tracks of one release(previous being five & seven),so albums are normally judged upon wether they can keep up the quality due too the increased number of tracks the artist has too create..

In anyones minds eye it must surely be reckoned that it might actually be nigh-on-impossible too repeat/continue the quality that was the e.p.(previous release),although surely a product has too be judged alone on its own merit,rather than too be compared of wether its better or worse!?...

This is classic electronic resting in its spiritual home where the haunting/the melodic/the uplifiting & the relentless all have there place on this very much all-inclusive album,the album starts off with the track (sealed) which could be viewed as an introduction,setting the tone & feel of this album but it is much more of a filler than an peak time track which shoundn't put anyone off,the only downside too 'sealed' is that it is very formulaic in its structure & tempo,the album really begins with next track (arnica) which has a great convaluted structure too it with backing drones & synths too further emphazise its complex nature,(trad marc 9) is short & sweet but trademark quinoline yellow signature sound where tempo & melody are brought together quickly & sublimely...

There are again some more fillers in this album including (sheep dip) which is slow & feels very unconstructed but then (off ground touch) is again classic quinoline terriotry with tempo/melody & his very much trademark broken beats all merging together for a ultimately haunting but very engagaing tune,there are a couple of surprises for us fans here though of (if i was tickled by the rub of love) which sees quinoline delve into ambient terriotry which while no great shakes is very accomplished & helps too give depth too the album,(lidding stock) sounds like a thousand bats emerging from there cave too bring chaos too an un-suspecting world,and the louder it is the more bats there are!,(chewl ysgithrog) sounds like a A-side autche tune which while it builds the beats ,they re-arrange themselves as if self-aware,but (dulcis) is the winner for me with it almost accordian sound interpersed with high-tech metalic breakbeats which are expertly arranged,(spion kop) is the surprise here with an obvious breakcore influence(squarepusher anyone?), but it does not have a dark brooding bone in its body,remaining melodic & fun fair like...

So thats the album & it is more diverse & experimental than his previous releases,definatly a winner though,keep em' coming!