Track Of The Day: Audion - Mouth To Mouth (Spectral Sound)

At some point in the first decade of this century, Matthew Dear was everywhere. This is probably because he spread himself so thin and, in doing so, became the minimal movement’s polymath. In spite of his categorisation within said genre, he didn’t really make much minimal. He released on Minus as False, and Perlon as Jabberjaw. However, the tunes he’s really remembered for are those under his own name or as Audion. The latter, in particular, being an outlet for choice, rave brain melters, of which ‘Mouth To Mouth’ is a prime example. It’s a lengthy track, but all then more effective and hedonistic for it, allowing other compositions to be layered above and below it while it gathers a tireless, inexorable momentum. It’s also definitely a track that divides people, if the comments on Discogs are anything to go by. Thankfully, for the most part, they’re not, as they’re probably written by bad nerds who need to go outside once n a while. ‘Mouth To Mouth’ is elegant in its simplicity. And there is a (new?) edit of it floating around, as played on Sean Johnston’s latest ALFOS EBS. It’s paced very well for ALFOS actually. A little faster than the chug normally allows, so all you superannuated ravers had better watch your sacroiliacs.