Stress Assassin – Within The Office Of Eye And Ear 2xLP

Artist: Stress Assassin
Title: Within The Office Of Eye And Ear
Label: Dubmission Records
Cat nr: DUBM017
Format: Black vinyl 2×12″
Style: Dub/Ambient/Downtempo

Tracklist:
A1 Motorcycle Boy’s Theme
A2 Tags + Smoke
A3 Shopcleaner
B1 Emotion Trakker
B2 Time
B3 Brain Plate
C1 Special Dish
C2 VC Don’t Lie
C3 Nature
D1 Stealth Wallpaper
D2 Lextorp
D3 Underground?
D4 Blueprint

Before he became better known as Porn Sword Tobacco (PST), Swedish producer Henrik Jonsson released two albums under the name of Stress Assassin.
Like his later oeuvre, the tunes are spacious, cinematic and multi-layered, influenced by the likes of Harold Budd and Tangerine Dream, but for this project there is additional guidance from Lee Perry and Moritz von Oswald.

Released on vinyl for the first time, Within the Office of Eye and Ear’s smoked-out ambience and blissful beats are permeated with melodic bass and cinematic space.
Found sounds, floating voices and intermittent pops ripple amongst the sweet harmonies, lush atmospheres and pulsating basslines, creating a captivating other-worldly dreamspace.

As Henrik explains: “Made often at night in an attic in Gothenburg, it’s music I did in a world far away from today: the music was, and is, about not running along with
a stress-y society soaked in TV, media and materialism, out of touch with the calm beauty this world gives us”

He certainly succeeded as Within the Office of Eye and Ear offers the ultimate stress assassination.