First question: Is "Floater," the lead track off this relentlessly claustrophobic maze of vocal-free electronica by Mick Harris and Eraldo Bernocchi, a reworking of Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers"? The spare rhythm and whistle melody suggest so. What's astounding is how much menace the duo can perpetrate minus Gabriel's millennarian monologue. And that's just for starters. Variations on the "Floater" beat, a skewed hard meter with an apparent mind of its own, comprise the album's backbone. These drum sequences all sound like the trails left by mildly berserk little "Sorcerer's Apprentice" robots--a scenario that would make the rest of the music (horror-movie overtones, funky synthesizer riffs, industrial soundscapes, piping minor-key minimalism) the work of two men desperately trying to appease the little machines. --Marc Weidenbaum