- Emmanuel Top returns for his third release after a ten year break, and again it's on fellow Frenchman Terence Fixmer's label. As with first single, Addiction, there's a refined, hazy quality to both sides. "Cylic" is full of hallway echoes, imperceptibly building a patchwork of semi-ambient noise before sweeping it away forcefully to reveal the track's striking skeleton. Highly resonant and rapidly-panning drum hits act like flickering fluorescent lights. On the other side, "Flux" doubles the track length, taking it up to 12 minutes long. If "Cyclic" was eerie footage of a derelict hotel, this is an actual visitation. It's led by a tight, forceful kick, with low-end pops of air and electrical shimmers moving around the sonic canvas, seemingly fading to nothing before jumping back left, then right. A soft shaker introduced halfway is like carpet shuffling under foot, and its companion hi-hat like pocketed keys jingling. Despite the driving kick, it's not exactly dance music; more like ambient to a beat.
Tracklist A Cyclic
B Flux