Xabec is several years that built up sonic sculptures training the senses with tiny noises, synthetic rhythms and dark ambient movements. His new album is titled USING UNUSED METHODS and has been released by Hands Productions (as his previous stuff). The CD opens with an eight minute track, "Open state", that recalled me the Sylvian/Czukay collaborations because the meditative atmosphere and the trumpet parts. After that track the album seems to starts slowly his run toward a darker reign where the melodies rarefy and long fluctuating sounds duel with creepy noises and distant vocals. Sometimes melody faces up again with "Gummaff", where a slow melancholic sound is reinforced by a distorted rhythm. Listening to this one it’s like having a distant window opened with a sunbeam that reaches you passing though it. The following "Oulu" changes the atmosphere by introducing again tension and little noises. Manuel Richter (the main person responsible of Xabec’s sound) is really good at alternating tension/noise and melody/meditation and when you let your senses loose, be prepared to a sudden steer thanks to distorted rhythms made of glitches and pulsating drums. The tracks I preferred are: "Open state", "If" (good effect the use of the recitative vocals along with hisses/noises), "Gummaff" and "No disko" (a real particular track that blend infernal choruses, noises and contemporary music).