Review: German producer and engineer in LA Buttrich teams up with Barcelona-based Audiofly for a tough dance floor release. The title track revolves around dense, dark drums, tough claps and a series of grungy build ups. "Something Happier" starts in a simialr vein with a tracky, bleepy groove, but then Buttrich's influence prevails and it progresses to reveal beautifully melodic, jazzy keys. Then there's "Uninformal Processing", which sees a return to more tracky sounds. The beats are dense, the filters lean and functional, but the collaboration never lapses into senseless brute force and "Processing" retains a fluid groove common to both parties' work.
Review: Jay Haze may have been lumped in with the minimal explosion, but the often outspoken US producer has so much to offer than plinky-plonky hamster fart rhythms. "I Can Love You" shows why he is such a maverick; featuring a high-pitched falsetto - think Prince in particularly tight pants - its tumbling rhythm is also endowed with the kind of melancholic synths that prevailed on Autechre's Amber. At the other end of the spectrum is "Snoop Hang Low"; featuring a contribution from Michael Ho, its doubled up drums provide the basis for dense, glitchy percussion. But Haze is also a producer with a track record for making deep dance floor tracks and the spacey, layered chords of "Third Eyez Open" and "Chamber of Love" are testament to this.
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