- Infiné has racked up a lengthy, varied discography since first appearing in 2006. Regardless, its latest signing, Downliners Sekt, stands out from the pack: rather than the smartly contemporary dance sound Infiné is best known for, the quasi-anonymous, surprisingly long-running group makes... well, if the beat's not dubstep, then it's not entirely unrelated.
Listening to their first release for the label it's hard not hear Burial (lost voices and lonely drums) and Mount Kimbie (messy humanity in a mess of electronics), but defining the Sekt solely by their touchstones here seems to sell them short: Trim / Tab feels like its own thing, even if it's tough to enunciate where it deviates. The 12-inch's first part (despite the backslashed title, the two sides don't appear to be named separately) is the most familiar, with a mournful piano playing minimalist chords over a brisk, clinical beat. The second side is the more tantalizing of the two: the downbeat lost amidst throbs of high-passed noise and a veritable flea market of samples, it sounds urgently unfocused, like a stoner who's spent the last hour trying to find their house keys.
Tracklist A Trim/Tab (Part One)
B Trim/Tab (Part Two)