Review: Thomas Hennebicque aka Toh Imago's second album, Refuge, aimed to recontextualise humankind's relationship with nature and was recorded on the edge of a forest in France, where nature played a big part in the production aesthetic. Now here are the remixes: Berlin legend Shed lends his midas touch on a re-rub of "Monde Interieur" giving the track his renowned "power house" treatment, while Japanese hypnotic techno expert DJ Nobu reinterprets "Cite Peupleraie" as a sublime ambient journey, and To Van Kao's rework of "Chiffchaff" is a deep down and dirty take that's perfect for the afterparty.
Review: French electronic music maverick Erwan Castex aka Rone drops an LP for his native InFine imprint! This, as one would expect from Castex by now, is an excursion into the deepest depth of the synthesizer. There are both moments of total abstraction, such as on "(OO)" and "Ouija", and of sheer delicacy on the wonderful "Acid Reflux" or "Memory". The most impressive aspect of the album is Rone's technical ability, a freedom to express even the wildest of ideas into a concrete groove and sonic structure. Recommended.
Review: Perennial man-of-mystery Arandel returns with the belated follow-up to his acclaimed 2010 debut album In D, the title of which offered a cheeky nod to the work of Terry Riley and other American avant-garde composers. Like its predecessor, Solarispellis was composed entirely using his own instruments and analogue gear, with no MIDI, plug-ins or contemporary trickery. Flitting between unearthly ambience, bubbling themes for imaginary computer games and loose, high-minded tributes to American minimalism, it's a surprisingly wide-ranging set. While it's his love of modern classical music that inspired the more complex pieces, it's the electronic-only curiosities - like library music from another dimension - that impress the most.
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