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Error Response aka Stephen Arnold new album: Zen

Error Response is British producer Stephen Arnold (aka Espion) and Zen is the debut album released on the Berlin based Elektrotribe label.

Zen is a very interesting album that blends Arnold’s love of film scores with interesting ideas and eery moments. Playing like a pseudo-fsoundtrack, the album has mood swings incaptulating drum n bass and downtempo beats, trip hop grooves and atmospheric samples of electronica.

Error Response is a move away from the industrial and agressive electro output of Espion and allows Stephen Arnold to explore much softer tones.  The music on Zen steer their own path, evoking thoughts of a dark, melancholic, moody and claustrophobic Bladerunner-esque, urban environment.

The album is the first of three parts entitled Zen, Tao and Chi, which have been in production since 2005. The music fuses sampled loops and phrases with complex interweaving programmed rhythms and synthesized melodies, with an organic flow, dropping into ambient sections, or into more fast drum ‘n’ bass sections, while always sticking to the theme of a mysterious, urban samurai, film noir soundtrack, filled with curiosity, intrigue, thrills, car chases, plot twists, gangsters, cops and femmes fatales.

The album takes the listener on a journey of both hectic rushes and moments of contemplation.  The album is apparently inspired by the Ninja Tune sample master, Amon Tobin, the ambient soundscapes of game composer Jesper Kyd, many film composers such as John Barry, John Powell, Phillip Glass, Bernard Herrmann and classical composer, Igor Stravinsky.

Error Response – Zen  tracklist:

1. Capital Trap
2. Real Props (Feat. The Protege)
3. The Safehouse
4. Rules of Engagement
5. Serenity
6. The Arrival
7. The Clones
8. Payment in Kind
9. Creep 31
10.Stealth
11.TV Land
12.Game
13.Zen
14.Steel Sky
15.Shadows
16.Valiant
17.Severe
18.The River Runs Through