Review: Swedish producer Harold Bjork released rather a lot of fine music earlier in the decade, including inspired early outings on Studio Barnhus, before the trail went cold four years ago. Earlier in 2020 he returned to action via a minimalistic melodic techno album on Cocoon, and now he's ready to release his second full-length of the year: a more expansive, musically rich and stylistically varied excursion on Internasjonal that adds an atmospheric Balearic edge to his drowsy, synth-heavy template. Highlights include the sparkling, uplifting shuffle of 'Zweifler', the tactile and immersive piano house twist of 'Cloudwalking', the Isolee style bliss of 'On The Dock' and the typically dubby, freewheeling Prins Thomas 'Diskomiks' of 'My Dag'.
Review: Out on vinyl in 2020, Antonio Marini AKA Healing Force Project comes with "Atmospheric Haze" between hypnotic, unearthly ambient techno ("Dedicated to Cosmic Diaspora"), jazz-funk fired, spaced-out drum and bass (the unusual but excellent "The Wicked Cyborg"), ultra-deep and druggy dub techno (the minimalist weirdness of "Acid Instinct") and rhythmical, modular-sounding ambient (the Radiophonic Workshop-esque "A Remote Outpost"). In some ways it's an unusually eclectic EP, but there's no denying that every single track is a winner.
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