(Ninja Tune)
Machinedrum is one of the many recording aliases of North Carolina-born, Berlin-resident beat obsessive Travis Stewart, a prodigious 31-year-old producer whose recent work has been characterised by a splicing of 90s jungle and contemporary juke, or Chicago house. Here, it makes for tracks that, more often than not, are the kind to dutifully admire and find interesting, rather than lose yourself to on a dancefloor – much of this record sags with chill-out longueurs. But, when those two qualities do come together, as on the penultimate Eyesdontlie, it's formidably tight and focused and it makes for dance music to please the brain as well as the body.
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by Hermione Hoby via Music: Electronic music | theguardian.com
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