With morning comes light. Here are a few tracks I've been on to lately:
Stimming & Einmusik - Madleine
The A-side to this formidable EP is "Madleine", a groovy deep tech monster that features Stimming's prototypical unwaveringly stoic bassline, rippling percussion, and Einmusik's equally lilting chord stabs and trinkling harmonic synths. The duo gets everything right here: the right tempo that keeps this train moving without letting it spiral off the tracks, a rhythm section that bounces in true Diynamic fashion, and a precisely-timed breakdown that soothes the ears but doesn't go completely unnoticed. A wonderful builder and a perfect complement to the destructive B-side.
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Stimming & Einmusik - Magdalena
Where the A-side went for depth and a solid, creamy groove, the B-side goes for big-room in a number of ways. The rhythm crashes out of the gate with a thick, driving kick and a rumbling pad over which aqueous synth stabs are applied. The percussion is really where this track goes off; Stimming's handy-work brings a layer of hi-hats over the crisp, barreling low-end. Paired with the monstrous main synth stab melody, there's a real sense of urgency here, and around 3 and a half minutes when the hi-hats give out and come back in, you can almost feel the waves of bass crashing back into you. This is a slab of big room techno that in and one itself is the peak, a beautifully constructed piece of percussion-driven mayhem that breathes down your neck and doesn't back down for the entirety of the eight minutes it spends on the deck. An amazing cut if I ever heard one.
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Gabriel Ananda - Hyperballet
Gabriel Ananda produces a sort of techno that reminds one of a Cadenza record: crisp, organic techno, only Ananda laces his with a bit more structure and catchy little melodic hooks that give his music a bubbly, groovy aura to them that permeates through you. At least, that's what I hear on "Hyperballet". Kicking off with a shrill, high-pitched little riff, bubbles of pads burst around Ananda's crisp bassline and woodland-sounding rhythm section. But all this rolls under the atmospheric main riff, a beautiful, simple little thing that gets into your head and squeezes your heart ever so slightly. A shimmering, vivacious little riff if ever there was one, it is the track's centerpiece, and my only caveat is that it's around for too short a time. This is amazingly produced organic techno fare, and I highly recommend a listen. It nearly brings me to tears.
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More in a few. Enjoy, friends.
-NL
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