ONUR OZER
TWILIGHT EP
VAKANT

I love the blurb that comes with this inestimably great Berlin label’s releases. Apparently, the title track on the new EP from Istanbul DJ Onur ‘works better than donkey drowned in vodka on a high mountain road’. I’m not disputing that, but will add that the minimal space-funk seeping and hissing in these grooves is unlike anything else around and utterly mesmerising. Ultra-deep with tension stoked by high horror strings and drones underpinning creaking riffs, while the drums stoke the pressure. The donkey’s donger to boot. The flip’s ‘Gizeh’ throws down more muttering electronics and odd sonic dismemberment, while ‘Lotus’ is furthest out of the lot, dubbed and distended to fuck. This record might whisper instead of screaming but is all the more effective for it. And it’s on vinyl.

5 Out Of 5

Reviewed By: Kris Needs