Dino Sabatini & Edit Select - Mnemosyne EP

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  • Since its launch three years ago, Outis Music has released a slow stream of hypnotic, intriguingly organic techno informed by label boss Dino Sabatini's love of Greek mythology. Sabatini himself has been credited on each of its releases so far, three of which featured appearances from fellow Rome artists. For the fifth, Mnemosyne, he's linked up with Glasgow's Edit-Select (real name Tony Scott), following a collaborative effort on the latter's Phlox LP for Prologue earlier in the year. The three tracks lean towards Sabatini's style, and fit with the more restrained stuff in the Outis catalog. The slightly syncopated kick drum of "Terpsichore" offers some tribal funk, but the track is perhaps too passive overall, with light percussive textures and eerie drones stirring in the distance. "Euterpe" and "Urania" are both stronger standalone tracks, and more solid as tools. "Euterpe" is a smooth-chugging 4/4 track that features a slicing hi-hat and endlessly offbeat, echo-laden tremors—tremors that also burrow their way beneath the surface of "Urania." That one has half-time drums balanced by an acidic bass throb, and is otherwise filled with a colorful assortment of beeps and softly whistling pads, which helps bring the record to a warm, tranquil conclusion.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Terpsichore A2 Euterpe B1 Urania
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