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Otto von Schirach's vision-- or maybe auracle would be a better word -- of IDM is never easy, and never the province of wusses. His 8000 A.D. was demanding, and required listeners to pay attention. Escalo Frio is no different; turn it on during your work day and it'll become one with the background of your phonecalls, subway rides and email. Loaded with squiggles, bells, album scratches, murmuring voices that sound like the damned (or at least like Jimmy Stewart's telephone in Bell, Book and Candle) and bouncing sheet metal, it sounds like von Schirach is a kid in a science museum, with happy results -- all great inventors started out with play. "Educating the Sound Barrier 2" is unusual, because there's actually a melodic pattern in the bells and popping metal pipe noises that punctuate the track. "Educating" is also unique because it includes a short section of Egypt rapping; von Schirach tends to stick to purely instrumental pieces. It's almost a musical thesis set to von Schirach's nominal music: "You say it can't be done," and then von Schirach sets out to do it. My noise-phobic cat purred when she heard it: Escalo Frio is definitely better than merely "good".
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