- Matthew Burton & Kate Rathod's specialty is the sublime. The duo's tracks create a wonderful sense of space, a deeper-than-deep type of deep house that seems to exist outside of genre. This otherworldliness is often helped along by a disregard for straight 4/4 rhythms, something that's once again on show throughout Steel Width. Indeed, the A-side has a beatless tune and two that seem to pull you into their orbit, rather than propelling you along a straight track. (It's the same trick that helped make their Visionquest A-side, "Warehouse Fool," so bewitching.)
Similarly, the word that seems to best describe "Starfish Enterprize" is "floating," even if it does gain a considerable amount of steam by the time its through. The only thing here that truly bumps is the aptly titled "Hardtmuth." But even that one opens up to eventually reveal a bubble of hot melody. It's the only one credited solely to Burton on the release, but it bears all the hallmarks of their joint releases—simple, subtle and full of melancholy.
Tracklist A1 Steel Width
A2 Lastrack
A3 Day After Day
B1 Starfish Enterprize
B2 Hardtmuth