#35 Feat. Staff Picks in Electronica

Back on Upon You with his eagerly anticipated new number, label co-founder Marco Resmann treats us to a sizzling hot slice of buzzing machine funk and fractured techno rhythms with the Algorithm. Featuring LAs one-and-only Cari Golden on vocals, this new EP has us soaked in a world of encrypted paranoia, data-wazzing clouds and AI-fuelled menace, where every signal could be the last and every backdoor a trompe-loeil. Though offered as a quartet of distinct versions, VotA is more than just a single and remix package and each piece of work contains the elements to its own expanding universe. The original mix serves up a fine combination of left-of-centre electronics - wistfully atmospheric and dynamic in equal measure, bridging the gap between its intrinsic nature as a piece of no-nonsense dance music but also as a slab of boundary-pushing analogue techno, breaksy house and IDM-ish hybrid. All in depth-plumbing layers of rolling sub-bass and loop-heavy tectonics, the Arp mix folds out into a hypnotic, post French touch-style facelift of barely recognizable stems, whereas the Eleven mix lays it further thick on the electroid / breaksy profile; like a sharp, distant, dystopia-infused nod to Detroit, initiating a remote dialogue with Arpanets 2002 classic, Wireless Internet. Closing the EP, the Anniversary mix is pure peak-time deep rave material. Heavily dubbed-out and inch-precisely engineered to trigger off maximal response from the dancers, this one is the closest youll get to a typical floor roller. Let go of the persona, its time to hack your true self back into the system.

Marco Resmann, Cari Golden