Through the Portal, by Pulse Emitter

Through the Portal

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1.	Factories 02:52	buy track
2.	Tree Frog 04:27	buy track
3.	The Deserts of Hyperion 04:28	buy track
4.	Alien Jungle Temples 04:35	buy track
5.	Teal Forest Droplets 03:16	buy track
6.	Idyllic Swamp 04:13	buy track
7.	Heat Haze 04:10	buy track
8.	Virtual Reality Loincloth 04:59	buy track

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Originally released on Phinery, Denmark, 12/12/2016
Reissued on Expansive, EE09CS.

"There is a constant struggle between the organic and inorganic aspects of our personal nature—an effort aided by the drive to define our own physical boundaries through intangible experiences and ephemeral thoughts. But for Portland-based musician Daryl Groetsch—who records curiously reassuring and intricate synthesizer music as Pulse Emitter—this determination isn’t given credence by volume or density but by an emotional center around which everything else revolves. He peers deeply into our relationship with our environment and positions himself as a mediator of sorts between the fierce wilds of our instincts and the calming constancy of nature. He possesses a particular fascination with the hold that the environment and memory hold over people and discovers mesmerizing ways in which to link each influence to certain emotions.

Scattered across the tracks of his latest release, “Through the Portal,” Groetsch maintains an intimate connection with both his audience and their perceptions of his freewheeling rhythmic insight. Over the course of eight songs, he applies his new age prudence to determine whether individuals have an innate need for natural connections, or whether we’re simply a collection of pinging neurons in the service of a dispassionate body. He surmises that there could be a case made for either reality, but he’s certainly offering us evidence to support the former supposition. Imbued with glacial synth melodies, found sound maneuverings and a mischievous sense of imagination, “Through the Portal” finds Groetsch supplanting all doubts with one of the most beautiful and electronically pastoral releases you’re likely to hear this year."

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released December 12, 2016

Recorded July 2015 - March 2016 in Portland, Oregon

Instruments: Roland JV-2080, VirSyn Addictive, Ensoniq VFX-SD, Waldorf Blofeld, E-mu Morpheus, Yamaha PSS-560, and global acoustic instruments

Pulse Emitter is Daryl Groetsch

Cover art by Pia-Mélissa Laroche
Layout by Joe Bastardo

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Pulse Emitter Portland, Oregon

Daryl Groetsch has recorded and performed as Pulse Emitter since the early 2000’s. Any given Pulse Emitter album could contain his experiments in Berlin School synthesis, digital fourth world composition, lengthy new age meditations, or space junk noise. ... more

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