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It’s not everyday that I listen to brand-new and unique electronic music. But tonight was my lucky time, because I got to listen to Gamma Rain. Gamma Rain is an experimental electronic project by Tim Allen. Now I am pretty sure this is the same person who makes music who is known as Derj. But this Gamma Rain music is less aggressive and more experimentally electronic than Derj. This song, “Rudimentary Failure” is mind bending to say the least. It has three primary movements and it uses tweaky digital sounds that seem to warp my brain patterns as if to wake me out of a trance. I always knew that music affected brain frequencies via sonic interference but Gamma Rain’s “Rudimentary Failure” really made this way of thinking concrete. It’s not that I feel smarter after listening to the song over and over again, it’s more like I feel slightly more alert and aware. This is sharp music. You can’t help but be changed a little by it.
The first movement of “Rudimentary Failure” is an upbeat, positive, almost playful beginning. It sounds like you are in a digital forest in the winter. And the snow is falling on the electronic pond and is making music as each snowflake hits the surface and ripples vibration patterns of binary code on the water. The drums sound like they are being played by buck-toothed squirrels. The squirrels are playing the beats on over-sized, hollowed out acorns.
The second movement is the brain reprogramming part. At first the left channel sound, seems to be kind of wierd and uninviting. But then after a few patterns it sounds like it is flipping a switch in my brain. Almost accessing areas of the mind that were dormant.
The final movement includes cool tonal samples of human voices that bounce in the center of the mix. It actually sounds like there is music right in front of me, even though I am listening to it on headphones.
I am really excited to listen to what other new music Gamma Rain has in store for us. I definitely like this experimental style that is set forth in “Rudimentary Failure.” I am going to keep an eye on Gamma Rain because I think he is really onto something here. The music coming out of this artist is very unique and seems to belong to its own style.
-Tyler