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Written and produced by Daniel De Los Santos, John Sellekaers and Mathias Delplanque.

Special guests: Lenny Gonzales (guitar on 2, 3, 6), Ernst Karel (trumpet on 4, 6), Quentin de Hemptinne (guitar on 5).
Mixed and mastered at Metarc, Montreal, 2006.

Daniel De Los Santos (Tamarin), John Sellekaers (Xingu Hill, Dead Hollywood Stars) and Mathias Delplanque (Lena, Bidlo) team up to produce their second work as The Missing Ensemble, Zeropolis.

The trio summons desolated urban landscapes, spectral cities and empty spaces so that a surrealistic vision of dystopia and dereliction forms into an abstract riddle. Drones, that are at times almost subliminal and at other times huge and menacing, throw the listener into a submerged, forgotten metropolis, a place fed back to itself until the point of collapse.

The phantoms of James Ballard and George Romero hover above the music like silent architects, as the former's vision of disaster areas and the latter's concept of decayed commercialism and corruption are translated into sound. This is a tour inside Zeropolis, a majestic non-city and the listener is invited to drown in its hallucinatory sounds.

"Dark, unsettling atmospheres of desolated cities at night. An empty city, with some flickering lights. A chilling event, driving in this city. Music of a highly soundtrack-like nature, but is it a film that you want to watch on your sofa, sipping wine? Or does it depict a world that we rather not want to see? I assume it's the latter. But The Missing Ensemble is something we want to hear."
-Vital Weekly.

"The second CD of the threesome The Missing Ensemble is playing for a couple of hours now (set to repeat) and they completely amaze (again). 9/10 "
-Gothtronic.

"Slowly building, evolving, moving and washing away, all kinds of noises appear within the aural range, sometimes at its lowest bottom, sometimes testing the endurance of the listener. Of course, that is straining and exhausting stuff, but also enriching and reliefing. It seems as if that should tell us that 2000 years of musical theory about harmonies and song structures is just another part of what numbs our minds."
-Monochrom.

"The Missing Ensemble = Brian Eno + A Silver Mt. Zion + The desolate zoo in Osaka. The sounds in Zeropolis are organic enough to make one believe they are field recordings of the subtle mechanical machinations of a hyper-bleak, postmodern metropolis—a Gotham City of sorts; a place where dark and deranged echoes vibrate through alleyways and the subliminal, rejected residue and decay of capitalism is heard."
-SlugMag.

"The Missing Ensemble (...) sculpts oceanic drones that purposefully suspend time and court disorientation and hallucinations. (...) One of the most appealing things about Zeropolis is its restraint; much of the material unfolds glacially and is pitched at a subdued level that enhances the aura of desolation."
-Textura.

"The craftmanship on display here has certainly played an important part in the album’s impact. Delplanque, de los Santos and Sellekaers know the strengths of their sounds in and out and intuitively keep the knob fiddling to an absolute minimum, which makes Zeropolis a solemn and stern affair. At the same time, the delicate allusions to other genres lend it a spaceousness and a feel of “anything could happen”."
-Tokafi.

"The Missing Ensemble try and subvert a few rules on their own terms, suceeding for the large part of this well conceived release."
-Touching Extremes.

"The end result is a somber, carefully assembled work, in which the trio has collaborated successfully both in terms of sharing their individual inspiration, and of structuring some potentially dispersive material."
-Chain D.L.K.

"Zeropolis is made up of dark and sinister soundscapes, drones and production that make a lasting impression on the most hardened listener."
-Electronic Desert.

"(...) Zeropolis is an empty graveyard of a city. Opening track Old York sounds like the whirring, incessant machinery of an underground car-park; grinding gears and hissing hydraulics. The promotional material cites George Romero as a "silent architect" and this certainly sounds like the introduction to a zombie film; doors flap ominously and streets are strewn with the hastily abandoned detritus of modern life as the camera pans past silently."
-Heaten Harvest.

"It is hard to love, but easy to admire. It is very committed anti-music, an odd alchemical experiment, not necessarily always successful but a bold one, combining drone, looped and glitched electronics, isolationist ambience, and a kind of atonal post-rock. It is quite dark music, downright chilling at times. But whereas Hidden Doors was often spacious (if unlit), Zeropolis is cramped, close, and confining."
-Sonomu.

"Mainly for those who seek escape from cohesive harmonies."
-Sonic Curiosity.

"Silent architectures, barren urban landscapes, empty and corrupted spaces, a general dystopic vision of the future of our cities seems to pervade the inspired Zeropolis project (...) Rot and decay reminiscent of ghostly visions, of a sense of majestic impotence, relegating us to the role of passive watchers of an already written story."
-Neural.

Video directed by Nicole Elmer. Music: A Long Walk, excerpted from Zeropolis.