- This split EP from Glasgow's Marco Bernadi and Germany's Johannes Volk feels like it could have been made any time over the past 15 years. That sound like a diss? Far from it. It's house and techno with a classic feel. Bernardi's "Never On A Monday" is a slo-mo breakbeat/techno hybrid that's washed in syncopated synth trills. At the midway point it's gripped by waves of fuzzy bass. Johannes Volk's "Glare" has a similarly plaintive mood. It's a wonderful piece of dark house, with an organ swirling back and forth and gentle percussion pattering like summer rain.
Like his opening track, Bernardi's "Blue Mountains" balances frantic with placid, with a jabbing Hammond joined by offbeat crash cymbals, guttural bass and a booming spoken word sample. Volk's "Humanoid Pilots" mainly sticks out because it's the most traditional-sounding track here, an unrelenting, quasi-hardcore assortment of whooshing synths and dubby breaks that closes out an EP of considerable merit.
TracklistA1 Marco Bernardi - Never On A Monday
A2 Johannes Volk - Glare
B1 Marco Bernardi - Blue Mountains
B2 Johannes Volk - Humanoid Pilots