This is my first crossing with Canadian improviser/turntablist/painter Mike Hansen, here offering an exciting disc of revised and processed performances, coming in a stylish black on black digipack, courtesy of the Barcelona-based label Etude Records, run by Pau Torres. "At Every Point" was played using an array of guitars, vinyls, cowbells, harmonicas and Vietnamese drums. Unlike many of his colleagues, Hansen has well spent his time cropping and layering bits and pieces of his sessions, with a great taste for (even hazardous) mixing. More often than not, the result is a joy for thirsty ears, a sort of Christian Marclay-cum-Steven Stapleton for the uncanny, surrealistic atmosphere of these audio-collages. The opening "The day before the day" sets the pace for the whole disc with its mashing of bowed strings, percussion, organ, acid guitars, droning gongs and toy-like sounds, and the creative tension never fades throughout; listen for example to the whirlwind of fragments in "Once held a lighter in the sky", or the drums/strings/vinyl loops mix in "Tidying up after". Great job all the way.