The beating heart of underground dance
Electronic download store Digital Tunes have released their second EP, ‘Folding Spaces II’, out now through their niche electronic label.
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Dedicated to promoting hardware-inspired House and Techno scenes, this second release weaves a musical thread through Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Leeds, California and London. Artists include Shcuro, Vasco Fortes, 4-5 A-PM, Punknown, Worker/Parasite and Chrononautz.
First on the bill is Shcuro, the moniker of João Ervedosa, one of Lisbon’s strongest new proponents of dark, trippy Techno. Stepping up from his usual role in the label as visual artist, his spacious offering ‘Yama’ is a psychedelic number with an immediate, dancefloor-ready appeal.
Other contributors include Italy’s Punknown, aka Orazio Bongiovanni, who develops his craftmanship of classic Chicago-style jacking House and Techno tracks with ‘Shutup’, arguably his rawest offering to date. Opening with a distorted, almost Gabba-like kick drum and swirling 303 acid lines, the track slowly builds with busy 909 syncopations before graduating into a dark, atmospheric piece.
Also credited is Swiss producer Lucas Delmenico (4-5 AM-PM), whose dedication to creating rich digital realms, often traversed by strong, rave-inspired rhythm sections, is realised here in a luminous focal piece filled with fine details and organic sounds.
He is joined by California’s Worker/Parasite, whose skeletal collaboration with supreme Leeds-based Techno improv masters Chrononautz is manifested in a magnetic acid breakbeat offering, followed on the EP by underground Portuguese artist Vasco Fortes.
On remix duty is homegrown talent Killawatt, a London-based artist with a penchant for futuristic and underground dubstep currents, along with impeccable incursions into expertly crafted, Berghain-style Techno.
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