There’s no doubt that this track is comfortable in its surroundings. This is important as so many get labelled randomly and without thought. Not that it matters once you start listening. However, it’s always nice to put a name to a face and have some resonance. And this, from Kenny Larkin’s magnificent first album on Warp, ‘Azimuth’, is full of it. It’s a stellar soundclash, evoking the entropic environment within which we live in panoramic form. It’s maybe not the easiest composition to dance to, but it is possible to find symmetry within the break beats as they play out in the void. Kenny Larkin doesn’t always feature in the many conversations in existence about Detroit techno, but he has always been one of its most soulful and sensitive composers whose long player oeuvre particularly is second to none.
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