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“Burning with the Fires of Ork…” William Blake's visionary words, routed via Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, form the basis for Namlook's first collaboration with Norwegian musician Geir Jenssen, aka the prolific Techno/electronica artist Biosphere. Jenssen is adept at making abstract music of paranoid intensity, and the claustrophobic percussion matrix on the opening, title track (reprised again as the album's final track) is a perfect foil for the prophetic menace in the text. “Gebirge” is a highly strung, beatless workout complete with velvet, hypnotic German monologue, whose subdued mood implies some impending cataclysm, while “The Facts of Life” could be the soundtrack for an alien soft porn flick. Set against the sustained tension of these five tracks, the relaxed Ambient expanses of early '90s Fax have been left far behind.