Three more.
Gel Abril - Miranda
It's a shame Get Physical has fallen off so hard recently. This nearly two-year old track comes from a period of superb GP output, and it's easy of course to get behind such a tune as this. The Israeli producer rolls out a raucous, glittering cut of tech house veined somewhat in the MIddle East. The shimmering, clicky pads highlight the descending, stabbing main synth riff, a simple, slithering beast that creeps up on you and is gone before you get point it out. A tersely tight bassline rounds out the package on this easily-mixed, well-produced builder.
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Black Strobe - I'm A Man (Audion's Donation Mix)
As the techno-versed third of Matthew Dear's personas, Audion turns in a slow-burner of a remix here for French duo Black Strobe. A somber organ riff lights the wick that catches warm, gaping pads and a cavernous bassline, while shrill, metallic echoes click in and out of the track. The vocal line (this is a remix after all!) works well here, but, to me, it really is not that noticeable. The organ and the bassline absolutely swallow everything in their path, as the trance-esque chord stabs build to a crazed, volatile crescendo before being beaten to a pulp by the bassline and the hissing, insistent hi-hats. This is some kind of masterpiece, I'm just not sure how. Whatever the case may be, it commands attention and threatens punishment for all who fail to comply. You have been warned.
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Patrick Chardronnet - Ledge
Frequent Connoisseur, Poker Flat, and Raum...musik collaborator Patrick Chardronnet turns in a dark, melancholy slice of deep minimal with the aptly-titled "Ledge". An ominous echoing pad kicks off the track, buoyed by the ever-present clicking hi-hat, a slab of a heavy bassline rolled out soon after. Out of the ether soon comes a delicate, paper-thin pad that threatens to break under any sort of pressure. Against the pop and crackle of vinyl, a ghostly, subdued synth riff ripples into view, layered over the bassline for a solid, instantly-pleasing groove. Soon the eery synth echoes come back in, the air thick with remorse and sticky with the sweat of a satisfying groove. There's something...odd about this track. The atmosphere is dense, but it's completely danceable, playing a rocky middle-ground that it teeters over from time to time, like some kind of...ledge. Yeah. Enough said. A satisfying minimal monster from a consistent producer.
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More soon.
-NL
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