Elisa Bee - Sample Minds (Balkan Vinyl)

 

Title: Sample Minds EP 

Artist: Elisa Bee

Label: Balkan Vinyl

Cat Number: BV43

Genre: Techno

A1: Sample Minds

A2: Acido Allegro

B1: Alla Prima

B2: Alla Prima (Neville Watson’s Wet On Wet Mix)

Elisa Bee debuts on Posthuman’s Balkan Vinyl with three functional, but interesting pieces of energetic techno that all have the wind beneath their respective wings. The title track could soundtrack one of those crazy cheese rolling races they have in Gloucester. It’s got a recklessness about it that is occasionally brought under control by a wailing trumpet. The beats on ‘Acido Allegro’ are on a collision course, which makes it feel like the floor is shifting from beneath your feet if you try dancing to it. ‘Alla Prima’ has different textural layers that, while they resemble each other rhythmatically, are slightly add odds with each other tonally. Tied together by a kick however, everything comes together. The Neville Watson remix scoops out the track’s nucleus and turns it into a dubby excursion which lets the more peripheral elements dominate, turning it into something both delicate and enduring.