Decaying trance tracks and breakbeats that sound like they’ve been beamed in from 1993 … this week’s electronic playlist takes us back to the future
An enormously welcome return for an essential voice in techno. Halo started out making galaxy-contemplating dream-pop in 2010, eventually silencing her pipes and seguing into dance tracks. These are like novels that reveal new meanings with every reading, full of unusual instrumentation, Chain Reaction-style frosting and rhythms that are dynamic yet uncertain. On these two new tracks from her upcoming double EP for Honest Jon’s, things are more minimalist and mysterious than ever. On Situation, what sound like modular synths make inquiring bird calls, as muted rave chords play over an almost Caribbean shuffle – it’s tropical paradise in a broken VR simulator. On Nebenwirkungen, a bass wub keeps hesitantly dipping its toe in and out of the water, but the mid-range is more confident, piling in and chattering in an obscure robot dialect. This is the kind of dub techno that Moritz Von Oswald is a master of, but Halo’s skank is truly twisted.
by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian
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