I think it was in Melbourne four years ago listening to the Process track on Staedtizism 2-- I was talking about how great the final few bars of it were; he jumped up and pointed at me and shouted "It's a NOISE GATE! You like NOISE GATES!" and we spent an hour toying with CoolEdit's "noise gate" functions and it turned out he was right.

Used conventionally, the gate removes background debris from an audio recording-- any swath of sound with volume beneath a certain threshold is silenced. But you can, if you are insane, turn the threshold level way above normal, so that it silences substantial and important sonic creavaces. So an old reverby drumbreak turns into a train of minimalist arrhythmic fragments in enforced stroboscopic stacatto. Where each individual drumhit, rather than sprawling lazily across multiple milliseconds, is heard just briefly.

This Daedelus track has these fragments all over, in a too-cute clutter of samples that, for better or worse, never quite harmonize or rhythmically sync. (And does anyone else think this is exactly the same swelling-strings-loop that Wagon Christ just used in Shadows?)

P.S.: check out the trailer for Night Watch.