Here’s a random pick from the new Cahl Sel LP ‘Traces’. ‘Blink’ is another tune I’ve recently comes across which sounds indebted to early Autechre, well third album vintage. It’s all in the layers innit. What sets this apart is it also feels like it could have been used in ‘Close Encounters’ as an alternative to the five tones. Well, bits of it anyway. Maybe a bit too suny for Autechre as well. Because if there’s one thing this puts me in mind of it’s summer days and staring off into the middle distance. Always a good thing.
Monday, November 24, 2025
Laseech - Astral Destiny EP (Cosada)
Title: Astral Destiny EP
Artist: Laseech
Label: Cosada
Cat Number: COS002
Genre: Deep House
1: Astral Destiny
2: Dreams
3: Abyss
4: Evolving Depths
I guess this is deep house. An umbrella term innit. However, it crosses genres into genial electro jazz and broken beat. ‘Astral Destiny’ and ‘Abyss’ both have that Larry Heard hallmark. The former a very danceable, uptempo piece of sparkling, reflective mood music. The latter a low end journey into parts unknown. Slower and more deliberate than the title track, but united with it in its dense, cosmic approach. ‘Dreams’ is an off-beat shuffle draped in spoken word and with an abstraction that works within its limits very effectively. And there’s a slight French Touch feel about ‘Evolving Depths’, its downtempo highs and lows nicely tying up this varied release.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Track Of The Day: Tarta Relena - Mille risposte (Dopplereffekt Isotopic Filter Re Structure) (Latency)
I came across this track the other day. It’s not really what you might expect from Dopplereffekt, but then what is? Having said that, their touch has often been deployed to the weird and the wonderful with the outcome being even weirder and more wonderful. I thin that soon synths will be made with a Dopplereffekt button. Which, when pressed, will instantly Dopplereffekt whatever is in your head at that time creating a parallel world overseen by dystopian, minimal, electronic flourishes. Here, the original is time stretched across a solemn electro strata which uses space as a weapon of acoustics and alien communication. The result is a stunning symphony of disembodiment and haunted ambience. A piece of genius.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Friday, November 21, 2025
Track Of The Day: Thoughtforms - Chicago Trance (Thoughtforms)
I’m sure there’s a story behind this track’s title. That said, it does what it says on the tin, minus the Chicago bit. So that’s a 50% hit rate. What I like about it is its speed and intensity. It’s almost chug trance, and is suitably dense in structure. Spoken word is on point too. Could have done with one more phrase, but it sounds good.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Track Of The Day: Inner Zone - Folded Realm (Space Lab)
I’ve been posting quite a few recent Bandcamp purchases for the last few weeks, and here’s another. Space Lab have been championing this sound for a while now through the likes of Adam Pits, etc. Think Prologue from over ten years ago, and you’re pretty much there with this one. I would call it deep techno rather than trance. You may beg to differ, however. What it is for sure is a very immersive sound which maintains more than a shadow of funk. The remix of this track doesn’t do too much to it, but does turn up the contrast and the colour somewhat. There are interesting Goa vestiges floating around in this tunes’ headspace. Thankfully the good bits.
Track Of Yesterday: Autechre - Rsdio (Warp)
This track from Autechre comes from ‘Tri Repetea’ and closes the album. This is probably my favourite album by them because of its approach to melody and structure. There’s a lot of layering going on, and with layering comes spacial awareness. You can feel the build within each track and, even though it may be obvious what is coming next, you can never be completely sure. Sometimes there’s a tangent to go off on, often not. This album came out after the ‘Anti’ EP, which was a protest against the Criminal Justice And Public Order Act 1994 “which would prohibit raves, defined as any gathering of nine or more people where rave music is played. Rave music was defined as music which "includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats". This album experiments with that approach to rhythm, it’s anything but “rave” orientated though, taking a forensic and detailed approach to the science of patterned and textured shape-throwing invocation. And it’s influence is clear on the likes of the recently-released album by Noumen, whose ‘Oion’ feels like an homage of sorts.
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