Ov Biospheres and Sacred Grooves: a Document ov New Edge Folk Classics

Plenty of Europeans affiliated with industrial and psychedelic music in the 1980s grabbed acid house culture with both hands — but nobody turned it into sounds as genuinely psychotropic as the shadowy Dutch collective PWOG. Their big singles “Ov the Maenad” and “Exit 23” conquered international techno and even mainstream house dancefloors, and their Psychick Rhythms Vol. 1 and Record of Breaks albums showed them as some of the best channellers of Chicago’s most jacking rhythms. But Ov Biospheres is their home-listening masterpiece, a teeming ecosystem of woody percussion, water sounds, whispers and tinkles that blend into one another in truly lysergic fashion.