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 clichéd. 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