Review: Next up on Sleep D's label is Fader Cap with a tripped-out four track EP. Following a path that traverses techno and progressive house while making nods to trance and dub influences, Blue Pool is a distinctive release. "Toxic Lip" resounds to bugged out acid and a pulsating bass, while "1080 Beach" is all about the frazzled, hypnotic textures that Fader Cap fuses with a rolling groove. "Day Dream" is just as tripped out, with half-heard vocal samples unravelling over spiralling acid lines. "Blue Pool" is another wonderfully frazzled track - led by reverberating, synth hook and lithe break beats, it's the ideal soundtrack to accompany warmer, longer days.
Review: Sleep D's Butter Sessions presents a full album release by Berlin-based Japanese producer Yuzo Iwata. After releases on Pluie/Noir and Malin Genie Music, not to mention his track "Acid House" appearing on the Butter Sessions Come Together 12" a couple of years ago, the label now plays host to Iwata's debut LP. Kaizu features the saucer-eyed beat exploration of "Neverland", the tripped-out slo-mo techno of "Shadow Of The Rock" to the enchanting polyrhythms of "Gamelion" and the off-kilter psychedelia of "Ancient Tape".
Review: Following a couple of relatively low-key releases on one of Melbourne's most admirable DIY labels, Paper-Cuts, Julien Huynh and Will Holden have trundled across town and joined Butter Sessions, which is arguably one of the Aussie city's most successful underground imprints. There's much to admire across the EP, from the heady, early morning psychedelia of opener 'Virtual Language', where trippy psychedelic lines, TB-303 bass and twinkling ambient motifs catch the ear, and the dub-flecked '90s ambient techno hypnotism of 'Pulsar', to the dreamy breakbeat-house bliss of 'Shapeshifting' and the positively Balearic electro warmth of closing cut 'Ocean Drifter'. It may be an EP firmly rooted in the past, but Shapeshifting is as appealingly mind-altering as they come.
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