Rafael Toral's Space series of releases were brought to life last year in the most dramatic fashion with the epic 'Space', Toral making it quite clear that the album was merely the opener in a huge series of ten solo albums. 'Space Solo 1' is the first of these records. Continuing the themes explored on the first disc we again see Toral getting into the thick of it with home-made electronic doohickeys and portable amplifiers. This is DIY electronics at its best; screaming, hissing and scraping all the way to the final splutter and it is a devastatingly visceral listening experience. Toral is one of the masters of the genre and he sounds perfectly at ease with his decomposing equipment. Whether he's making feedback loops from small amplifiers or ear-piercing high pitched analogue wails it all sounds perfectly realized. There is a danger when producing this kind of music that the gear can take control of the artist rather than the other way around, but although you can hear in these improvisations a certain amount of serendipity there is never the sense that Toral loses control. For fans of the new wave of noise music and power electronics (Wolf Eyes, Jessica Rylan et al) .-Boomkat