The most startling techno outing to pop out of the mattress like a masturbating duck this week has to be this breathtaking little threesome on Luke Allen’s Bristol-based Four:Twenty label. For the last two years Andreas Wiegland has been making music which hovers delightfully outside of house and techno normality, instead mining the very root of electronic dance music before it became cliched. The closest I can think of to this brilliantly subtle, compulsive fusion of scuttling, jazzy beats and haunting trumpet lines is Carl Craig in ‘Bug In The Bass Bin’ mode. To make sure it lodges firmly at the back of the net, after the deliriously-intoxicating jigsaw shuffle of the original come two producers both currently at the top of their game: Kiki from Bpitch spacing out and planting some minimal ferrets down its pants and the mighty Luke Solomon on stunning form, stretching out on a shimmering bed of astral resonance and adding wonky little alien melodies. Genuinely sounding not of this planet, which surely has always been the point round here?
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
