Take your motion sickness medication and buckle your seatbelts! Dr. Walker’s Timestretch Paradise 2027 is a bare-knuckled kaleidoscopic dive into the unpredictable and the absurd, a near-three-decade-later sequel to the original Timestretch Paradise that lands both nostalgic and violently contemporary. Recorded at the Liquid Sky UFO Academy in the Alentejo, Portugal, the album immediately announces itself as a playground for chaos and texture. From the first glitch-strewn stutter of track one, listeners are hurled into a sonic landscape that teeters between fractured grooves, dadaist noise interjections, and moments of twisted, hallucinatory melody.
The fourteen tracks unfold like a fragmented dream, each one a collage of distorted beats, skittering percussion, and warped digital artifacts that challenge conventional sense of rhythm. Moments of reverb-drenched textures emerge, offering brief, almost comforting glimpses of respite from the madness before collapsing back into a sonic experimentation maelstrom. There is an unrelenting sense of deliberate unpredictability here, where glitch-hop elements clash and coalesce with tinges of acid and dark techno, forcing the listener to abandon expectation and surrender to the album’s glorious fractured logic.
Ultimately, Timestretch Paradise 2027 is an audacious, immersive statement from Dr. Walker, showcasing the full breadth of his experimental vision. It is not music meant for easy digestion, but for total engagement, rewarding those willing to embrace its disjointed energy and abrasive beauty. As it boasts fragmented beats, distorted textures, and hallucinatory sound design, the album becomes a twisted celebration of the absurd, a testament to Dr. Walker’s decades-long mastery of pushing electronic music into uncharted, exhilarating territory.
Timestretch Paradise 2027 by Dr. Walker was released 17th September, 2025
