Review: If your broken beat tastes lean towards the glitchy, leftfield and experimental side of the street, you'll find much to enjoy on this latest full-length from German trio Kuf - their fourth since 2014. Looped, stuttered beats and chopped-up samples abound, making 'Yield' a set that'll appeal to fans of labels such as Ninja Tune and Warp. For this writer, though, it's the album's mellower moments that stand out: cuts like 'Seem To Take' and '9' bring us a hazy, Balearic take on contemporary jazz while there's a certain appealing, laidback lounginess to 'Ah Oh' and, in particular, closer 'Long Before'.
Review: Well known for productions on the more experimental fringes of minimal techno for labels such as Classic, Ovum and Cocoon, Germany's Stefan Goldmann returns with his latest album on Macro - which he runs with fellow Berliner Finn Johannsen. Vector Rituals changes up the typical formulas of the genre, largely utilising shifting time signatures and hypnotic metal polyrhythms. Whether it's the slow motion tribal trance of opener "Nayba", the sparse, tunneling reductionism of Lorino" and "Yukagir" or the cavernous and glacial soundscape of "Ayon" - Goldmann succeeds in evoking ancient rituals throughout.
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