ALBUM REVIEWS
7.0
8.0
Rocco
Reboot
House Afrika
Deep Vibes
The Bridge
Deep_V
Roccofella
Minimal man re-invented
Perc
The Power & The Glory
Uner
Tune 432
Poemss
Hall Of Faces
Perc Trax
Diynamic
Planet Mu
7.5
Languid lyrics
The London-based
producer returns with his
second LP since 2011’s
mighty ‘Wicker & Steel’,
and it is a matured and
rewarding expansion on
the themes and sonics of
the former. It defines the
liminal space between
techno, industrial and
noise that challenges
the future whilst
nodding to the past and
present. Zara Wladawsky
Tried-and-tested as one
of the most consistent
DJs on the White
Isle, Spaniard Uner’s
contribution to Solomun’s
Diynamic imprint has
culminated in a pleasingly
eclectic long-player.
Breezily fusing intricate,
at times reptilian,
minimalism with raw,
funky, often slamming,
tech house functionality,
it’s a very impressive
debut. Adam Saville
As rooted in the work of
Kraftwerk and Bowie as
more recent future-facing
soundscapes from Falty
DL and Mount Kimbie,
Poemss is a collaboration
from Toronto-based
artist Joanne Pollock
and Aaron Funk, aka
Venetian Snares. Gothic,
woozy and hypnagogic,
it’s an entertaining
listen — if at times a little
disorientating. Adam
Saville
Radial
Crux
!K7/Normal Surround
Reboot has been one of Cadenza’s most
reliable and consistent artists over the
years. As a producer but also mainly a live
act, he has always embodied the spirit of
the label well. To kick off 2014, though,
he makes a move over to Sascha Dive and
Christian Schölzel’s Deep Vibes label and
releases ‘Deep_V’. It’s a six-track mini
album that relies heavily on field recordings
collected on worldwide DJ travels.
Thankfully, though, there is plenty of
analogue studio trickery also employed
to make this more than just a travel
document. Instead it acts like a mission
statement for what minimal can be in
2014 – hugely intricate, loop-based and
ever evolving on a micro level, but rather
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