Release #2 on RI sees the escape from the dancefloor and the entrance to the elevator. Where are we headed? No matter, 7 slices of "hi-res mellow textures" will fill your listening area for the moment. Being the only beatless RI disc to date, Dots (elevator music) turns to other methods of evoking atmospheres and gelatinous pixels. Most of the arrangements feature several interwoven textures which take turns gently flowing into each other, engaging in a sort of mutualism. Various surfaces enhance and subdue each other through filmy layerings. From the cascading chimes of Friendly Cortex to the contemplative melody of Dense, Dots features a rich sonic palette that paints up the room.

The title track consists of a simple repetitive theme that continually morphs into other shapes and sizes. A subdued bassey glow enhances the theme and sprinkles of cleverly engineered bleeps and gnoodles add a slight irregularity.

Track 3 gives me the impression of someone playing jazz at hi volume in some distant unit in my apartment building... sometimes I wish I could join them. The track is called Seaweed and for me the one sound most suggestive of any marine life is introduced exactly 54" into it. A rippling evening-beam ripples and brightens the temporal lobes. The drifting yet rooted plants of Tarkovsky's _Solaris_ or the ending film sequence from Kurosawa's _Dreams_ comes to mind.

The Spinout Segment alone makes this album a necessity. A hefty 12' chunka upliftin' amm-bee-ants... Some elements remind me of those used in Chill in Chill out from Organic Cloud...extremely "elevating." Dots concludes with Tonic Edge, a filled out scale of electrochimes that shift tempo and reveal interplay of the track's fine structure, which, little by little, disassembles itself and drifts away.