Wil Bolton - Null Point (2024)

After a long run of ethereal ambient LPs, Wil was encouraged by The Slow Music Movement Label to create a beat-led, ambient electronic release.

Null Point blends Wil’s trademark melodies and ambient textures with a more rhythmic approach. Minimal beats are constructed from thuds, clicks and crackles sampled from a vintage 7” record of heart sounds.

Plucky modular synthesizer sequences and woozy Mellotron loops are combined with the slow techno bleeps of an Erica bassline synth and crystalline keys and pads programmed on a Modal Argon8 wavetable synth, all bathed in dubbed-out tape delays and washes of reverb.

The album is anchored by downtempo dub techno constructs, swept along by heart wrenching strings & dotted with celestial electronic tones, triggering multiple sonic pleasure centers simultaneously.