As their catalogue takes shape in elegantly minimal strokes, Finnish imprint Elektorni locks in its third release with ‘Noel Skum‘, a characteristically unorthodox dispatch from Stockholm-based analog-funk laureate Daniel Savio.
Long before the algorithm could make its mark, Savio minted the term skweee – a stylistic micro-verse born at the turn of the millennium where 8-bit timbres rubbed shoulders with Nordic funk and basement soul. A cult architect of that sound and a regular on stalwart imprints like Flora & Fauna, Flogsta Danshall and House of Wisdom, Savio has spent the last two decades deconstructing and rebuilding the language of lo-fi synth-funk on his own terms.
With ‘Noel Skum‘, he doesn’t so much return as side-step back into orbit – delivering a sly, interplanetary cocktail of electro-dub architectures, leftfield chuggers and that unmistakable skweee sheen, now matured into a sleeker, more tantric strain of groove science.
‘Reverse Cowgirl’ feels like a love letter to late-night motel epiphanies and outer-body dancefloor mechanics. A tactile jam of dubbed-out bass slithers and cheeky percussive syncopation, it fuses vintage synth erotica with space-echo recursion. The kind of track that beams Balearic sunlight onto PVC headboards, and transforms even the most contorted of movements into sacred rituals of electro-organic revelation.
‘Noel Skum’ is scheduled for release on 12th April via Elektorni Records. Order a copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. Noel Skum
2. Mighty Thor
3. No A.I
4. Reverse Cowgirl