Review: Matthew Kaden releases his debut album as Mathimidori, nearly ten years after the release of the project's first EP. Akebono, which has found its natural home on the Danish label Echocord, starts with the reflective "Java" and "Maiia", before Kaden moves into the reflective, chord-heavy "Kioku" and the vocal-sampling "Shao". He raises the pace, albeit slightly, for the dreamy, floaty grooves of "Kobe" and "Asaka", which resound to deep piano keys and floaty vocal samples. Kaden shifts pace again and moves back to downtempo sounds for the woozy title track and the gentle, ebbing rhythm of "Soso". All of these elements combined make for an understated masterpiece.
Review: Dub techno specialist Idealist returns to Echocord, to following up last year's brilliant Source EP. Mind Field is the enigmatic producer's second full length offering, after 2016's Firewood Road on his own Idealmusic. It showcases a great evolution of his sound: after the powerful opener "Explorer" an emotive and hands in the air house stomper (or later the austere factory floor stomp of "Smoke & Mirrors" later), the rest of the EP remains in the cavernous and glacial sonic realms you've come to expect from the Swiss producer. A collection of deeply emotive and reductive versions where warm yet forceful bass frequencies roll along a ghostly trail of reverb and echo.
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