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The album opens with the gentle 'Homing Frequencies', no melody or rhythm, just distant shifting harmonious electronic notes. Very pleasant.
With Magnetic Wind, the tone shifts - deep sustained sounds dominate initially, with higher notes occasionally arriving later, accompanied by quiet surges of fuzzy white noise. But this too passes, to make way for the fuzzy note sequences, of 'Alien Desert', and the first simple percussive elements on the CD. Calm, strange, and downbeat.
'The Search Module', extends the move towards percussion, and features a simple regular drum pattern, under which growling notes grow in intensity. This goes away, replaced by surges of sound, and a few 'found noises' like doors shutting and echoing. The title is appropriate, and the track is strange but effective.
'Previous Life Forms' continues the themes, gentle long surges of sound being a dominant feature here, as on the rest of the CD. Seamlessly into the title track 'Escape Velocity' - and still everything is smooth gentle surges and distant more detailed sounds. Despite the name there is nothing rapid happening.
As you have probably gathered, tracks flow into each other, and form a coherent whole. Compared with his work with Zero Ohm, this is less melodic, and more ambient. I like it - the calm relaxing flow makes it very appropriate to have playing in the background.
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