Esoteric - Esoteric

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  • Commune is the latest hand-stamped, vinyl-only venture to emerge from the rainy port city of Bristol, with some suitably rainy-day warehouse techno locked in its grooves. Esoteric is a new alias from a familiar UK techno producer, and if you know his work at all, you'll probably recognize its gentle swing-and-skip instantly. Make no mistake, this is UK stuff, no Berlin-aping here: the A1 carelessly coils its chords around the rock-steady kick, and not even the hi-hats that come halfway through can make the track straighten out. It's a writhing monster of rounded corners and contours. The other A-side is no less orthodox, with the A2 hobbling offbeat on a bumpy bassline and occasionally exploding into bursts of high-frequency splinters—like watching a cymbal blown to pieces in slow motion. The B-side is a ten-minute monster that's a little more straight-laced, jacking with a housey stomp at odds with its gravelly, Dettmann-esque chords. About four minutes in it shifts gears for a pseudo-breakdown that feels like the floor dropping out from underneath—yet loses none of its momentum—an exciting little surprise that turns the lumbering stomper into a dynamic monster.
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      A1 Untitled A2 Untitled B Untitled
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