Title: The Driving Rain
Artist: Nico
Label: Midnight Shift
Cat Number: MNSX022
Genre: Techno
A1: The Driving Rain
A2: Wolfram
B1: Elements
B2: Wolfram (Dub)
This is my first encounter with Nico, aka Nicolas Guerrero a musician from Mexico City, and it’s a favourable one. The music that has herein been composed seems to span a region of subtle frequency modulation, one inhabited by rapid eye movement and intense rhythmic compression. What I specifically like about this release is its concision and consequent poetry. Each individual composition is a rhythmic excursion into a percussive netherworld, the landscape of which adapts to its pwn specific syncopation. ‘Elements’ metamorphosises into occasional unrestraint, but aside from these fleeting glimpses of disorder, the result is a strange blend between tranquility and what lies beneath, perhaps best crystallised on ‘Wolfram (Dub)’.
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