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O’Flynn x Frazer Ray: Shimmer (digital, Technicolour, October 2022)

This record is a bit of a landmine to try to write about for anyone who is, like me, Officially Bad At Genres. It jumps around all kinds of dancefloor-friendly sounds, with bits of the ravier end of techno, skittering breaks, shuffling two-step, shimmering melodic electronica, and so on. Impressively, it does all these things […]

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Christina Vantzou: No. 5 (digital, Kranky, November 2022)

Christina Vantzou’s No. 4 was really impressed me back in 2018, and it remains a firm favourite. So I was obviously excited to hear No. 5. It wasn’t really what I was expecting, and at first I wasn’t sure what to make of it. I found this much less accessible: to be honest, if it […]

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Lady Neptune: NOZ (digital, Night School, May 2022)

If you opened this expecting to read something pseudish about the latest electroacoustic experimental whatever, then I am afraid you are going to be disappointed. This record is gabber. It has hoovers and everything. I believe it is traditional to refer to this kind of thing as “face-melting”, and for good reason. It’s also insanely […]