Terrence Dixon At Juno Download

Review: Terrence Dixon's remarkable series of releases continues with Escape. Like his recent record on Delsin, "Beat" sees him move away from abstract sounds and embrace the full-blooded dance floor approach. Swirling filters move in over a rigid, metronome beat and even though the enveloping pads are spacey and dreamy, he keeps his focus on the dance floor. The title track is an entirely different matter, with its detuned, drunken sounding bass suggesting a move back to more abstract territory. He completes this move on "Another Space", where dreamy synths and a fragile, shuffling rhythm prevail. The only remaining question is whether he can maintain this remarkable form.

Review: As a self-confessed Terrence Dixon obsessive, this writer found it difficult to accept the concept of his work being remixed at all. That said, Ben Klock does a fine job of imbuing the Detroit producer's music with a sense of dance floor abandon. Klock's main version sees the Berlin producer lay down an insistent, stripped back groove, its shrieking stabs hitting the listener like the icy jolt of a winter morning. Klock's dub is more rolling and filtered, but contains a punch thanks to its metallic percussive licks. Edwin Oosterwal also delivers a high quality take on "Minimalism", with a slamming rhythm and dry hats providing the basis for a dramatic, sweeping chord sequence.

Review: Dixon had been under the radar for a few years, but nowadays it seems that there isn't a week goes by without him releasing a new record. Folowing his expansive recent album and the hard-edged release on Frustrated Funk comes this more accessible record for Subspec. Gloomy chords and wiry percussion breeze across the rattlling groove of "Untitled 1", while "Untitled 5" is more pacy and bristles with eerie synths. But it's "Untitled 2" that emerges as the clear highlight. Deeper and more subtle than the previous tracks, its doubled up beats, trickling streams of percussion and hypnotic chords make for some of Dixon's most engaging music.