Stuttering, unsure rhythms are a theme of this week’s electronic playlist – although there’s still room for smooth disco and artful techno
Here is a record that shows just how stunning the techno long-player can be as a format. So often bloated creatures made primarily to drape the producer in the gravitas required to get them through another festival season, Vincent’s is utterly uncynical, passionately felt, and universally appealing. There are dramatic coldwave anthems (The Beginning, Black Arm w/Wolf), industrial creepers (Junkies on Herman Street, Anti-Corporate Music), a delicate still life (Confetti), and, in perhaps the best track, an exquisitely-rendered take on classical minimalism in Small Whole-Numbered Ratios. At a time when blockheaded dance producers like Henrik Schwarz and Kate Simko are using orchestras to make themselves seem deep, this is the inverse: an artist who learns the language of a classical form before speaking it. Oh, and he didn’t forget the bangers: Phantom Power and Launch Ramp to the Sky are crowdpleasing and melodically perfect. It’s a staggeringly accomplished record made all the better by the pissed-off screed Vincent wrote to launch it: “This is music for the ugly ducklings of the world. Music for swans. If you’re a member of the rat race, climbing around a dumpster with the other rats vying for power, you may of course listen, but know – this is not music for you. This is action against you.”
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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian
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