Review: For the past 10 years, the Berlin-based, Bulgarian-Turkish producer Alper Durmush aka Imperieux has been meticulously cultivating his artistic style and steadily building up an international profile. His new EP named Extensions on KiNK & KEi's Sofia Records is filled with brisk, forward-looking breaks, raw jungle attitude and highly combustible house across five tracks. The evocative title track brings on the zeitgeist of early '90s UK dance music, while the off-kilter stepper "Desert Viper" reimagines drum 'n' bass aesthetics for today's dancefloors (and given the epic remix treatment by KiNK shortly after), as does the more minimalist and restrained roller "Show".
Review: Under the Imperieux alias, Alper Durmush has already released a handful of quietly impressive EPs on ATLANT Recordings. Here he returns to action after a seven-month break with his first outing on Sum Over Histories. He begins confidently via the exotic chord sequences, Turkish instrumentation, spiraling synthesizer melodies and chunky drums of "Mehmed", which rises and falls impressively over the track's eight-minute duration. There's a similarly epic, layered feel to "Inat", where darting riffs rise above sustained bass notes and the kind of hybrid deep house/tech-house groove normally associated with Dixon and Ame's impeccable Innervisions label. We'd argue that this two-tracker is Durmush's strongest single to date, though it's clear there's much more to come from the fast-rising producer.
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