Review: Some five years after he co-founded the Apparel Tronic imprint, Kisk has finally found time to record a mini-album for the label - a seven-track set where each track is named after a different day of the week. Musically, it's certainly more adventurous than his usual luscious and dreamy deep house, offering a wider variety of rhythms and sounds. After opening with the yearning deep house chords and skewed, experimental techno drums of 'Saturday', the Milanese producer drops some luscious deep techno/Detroit style deep house fusion (the Theo Parrish influenced 'Sunday'), before getting all jazzy and up-tempo on 'Monday' and exploring the dustier side of techno on 'Tuesday'. Elsewhere, 'Wednesday' is a trippy chunk of loppy techno queasiness, 'Thursday 'is a driving and breathless beast, and 'Friday' is a rubbery dance through hi-tech jazz territory.
Review: Apparel Music return and introduce a new sub label Apparel Tronic. The intention for diffusion label is to shift focus towards UK-rooted beats, nu-jazz, downtempo and even jungle - or what the label likes to to term 'bliss-beat'. Here Giuseppe D'Alessandro a.k.a Kisk and Ludovico Schilling have a new project which they inaugurate with the Hella LP: a collection of UK influenced dance tracks that merge influences from the aforementioned street-sound genres Originally born in Milan, Schilling relies on a process that he likes to describe as a 'contamination' of sound which entails the layering of field recordings and the sounds of his home environment with those of synths, real instruments and samples'. This approach distinguishes his productions and enables him to create a truly singular strand of dance music: and it's this that brings together the nine disparate tracks on this fine album.
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