Sleeparchive / Mike Parker - RPTCH04: Untitled

Label: REPITCH RecordingsRelease: Out Now

Taking the A-side, Sleeparchive delivers modern techno classics. The industrious ‘Fifth Station’ will fire up basements, warehouses and clubs across Technoland with it’s powerful, hypnotic beats. Two banging 30 second locked grooves later, we land at the mesmerising ‘White Angel Breadline’ which combines thudding bass with snappy percussion, and the kind of fluid, melodic, pulsing loops that make me feel like I’m on a slightly untoward space mission, from which I may never return.

On the B-side, New York’s Mike Parker delivers his trademark precision techno – not a noise out of place, not a rhythm that doesn’t feel deliberate and well thought out. On first listen to this EP I was a bit dismissive of ‘Flying Nerves’ but it’s a grower. It’s quite beautiful, with real depth and the ability to create a sound that is cavernous and layered and yet still very intimate. After that journey to some outer corner of your mind, ‘Lustrum’ brings you back to earth with an initial four four thump and then pulls back and gradually lures you in to some flight of the navigator spaceship manoeuvres, running alongside the kind of bass that you hear in your guts rather than your ears.

There is not one track on this EP that won’t get played out if you have it in your record box.