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Review: Tribeless Gathering is the name of UK producer Michael Anthony Wright, whose stylistic succession has heard him segway all the way from disco-funk through to experimental music and progressive rock. A real multifaceted artist! His latest sonic moot, Tribeless Gathering, bears no resemblance to the former item on this list, instead coming as a smattering of breakbeat and electro uplifts, often polyrhythmic, always riveting. These tracks strobe with the intensity of a darkened hallucinatory chamber, holding no bars on the twin fronts of sizzling hi-tech synthwork and gut-punchy drumwork, yet concurrently recalling a sort of abstract geometrical sound, of the same kinds as we might 'see' when sensorially elated. Whether one can find one's tribe without resorting to tribalism remains to be seen, but this is the kind of music that transcends titles, bringing motifs from breakbeat hardcore and trance, to neurofunk and bubblegum, under a single banner.