Putting on display a lush palette of dub accents and unflinching techno in trompe-l’oeil, the French producer goes deeper than deep with ‘Imaginarium Essai’.
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Moomin: A Minor Thought
For his sophomore long-player, coming a stately five years after its predecessor, Moomin has not tweaked the formula all that much. The pleasures are to be found in the same place as always: in subtle variations that reward over time and atmospheres as smooth as butter.
The Pilotwings: Molitor 71
‘Molitor 71’ hits the mark with force and self-restraint, offering a taste of transcendental music that’s no short of splendid.
Omar Souleyman: Heli Yuweli
The most interesting results of artistic collaboration often come from a willingness to tear it up and start again.
Tolouse Low Trax: Rushing Into Water
Tolouse Low Trax’s first instalment on Düsseldorf Themes For Great Cities spawns its own frame of significance; scripting industrial tempo automatisms and duplicated instrumental close-ups all the while shaping unexplored sound-dimensions from scratch.
Nehuen: Urban Transformation EP
In the wake of their Grafiti Tapes collection, Klasse Recordings return with KFAX, a fresh and bold new series of releases coming in the form of a riso-printed zine + QR code download. Thought-provoking dance music is in good hands.
Samo DJ, Baba Stiltz & Tzusing: A Slice of Heaven
Samo DJ, Baba Stiltz and Tzusing join forces for a collab EP on Munich’s finest Public Possession. On the menu of this alluring new slab: four digressive cuts of outlandish house material and entrancing afternoon groovers. What else?
HOM: HOM-002
Following up to the success of their enticing first outing, the secretive Berlin imprint serves up an opulent second platter that’ll rejoice everyone wishing for utmost seasonal contrast.
Isorinne: Recollections Of Forgotten Dreams
‘Recollections Of Forgotten Dreams’ serves as a dignified finale to an understated success.
Michal Turtle: Are You Psychic? / Astral Decoy
Melodically overwhelming, technically outstanding, both sides make for one of last year’s most extraordinaire records.
Mall Grab: Alone EP
The sincerity felt behind each track is echoing in its danceability: square-shooting and aimed at waking up house music’s elementary ‘let-go’ nature.
Gradual: Ipseity
‘Ipseity’ is exactly the kind of stuff you want to hear at 4am in a darkened sweatbox with nothing but a flashing strobe and a punchy sound system – an excellent and extremely assured debut.
Aufgang B, Benedikt Frey: Demo 2 / Drop The Funk
Aufgang B and Benedikt Frey band together for two bold groovers of the purest essence. An elixir of dirty funk and elastic synth-y figures dispensing soulful brightness and murky atmospheres in equal measure.
Tolouse Low Trax: Porcelain and Volcano
‘A Song and a Photo Novella’ is way more than your umpteenth arty variation on a dogmatic, ultra-codified genre such as techno.
Anthony Child: Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1
Anthony Child has created a record of modular synth experimentations, which resides in a world of sparse arpeggios, deep tone meditation and clashing saw and sine waves.
Moon B: Measure Pleasure
The aptly named ‘Measure Pleasure’ EP delivers the effortless groove that Wes Gray has become known for, but carries extra baggage in the form of two lukewarm remixes.