Dedicated to the memory of his sister (who died in a car accident),
Morgan Geist designed
The Driving Memoirs as an auditory account of a long road trip, placing it in similar company with Detroit landmarks by
Carl Craig (
Landcruising) and
Model 500 ("Night Drive: Time, Space, Transmat"). In a bit less than an hour,
Geist cruises through ten tracks of exquisite, finely tuned techno with an eye to the percussion-programming finesse of
Black Dog (circa
Bytes) and the reflective, haunting electro-jazz of early
As One. But
The Driving Memoirs does much more than cycle through its influences; taken in whole, it's a state-of-the-art techno masterpiece that's more than worthy of its predecessors and arguably the best release to come from the highly respected Clear label.