Maelstrom - Eliphino (Hypercolour)

 

Title: Maelstrom

Artist: Eliphino

Label: Hypercolour

Cat Number: HYPE087

Genre: House/Breaks/Electro

 

1: Maelstrom

2: Bubbling Glass

3: Eddy

4: One Day

 

This is Eliphino’s second Hypercolour outing, the first one being back in 2013, a fact the depresses me slightly, “The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills” and all that. So here we are and what has changed? His previous outing for the label, ‘I Don't Care/Understand’ matched vocals over light, syncopated beats. ‘Maelstrom’, on the other hand, spreads its influences more thinly, with the title track harkening back a little to its predecessor, ‘Bubbling Glass’ and ‘One Day’ being electro tinged, and ‘Eddy’ an epileptic exercise in breaks, neatly mixing abstraction with shape throwing. It’s an impressively varied release with each track being neither one thing nor the other.