- Recently tipped by Ben UFO as one to watch for 2014 and debuting on the fresh-as-hell All Caps label, Cardiff's Guy Evans is starting his career with a bang—albeit one that comes about twenty years late. Following his string of self-released archival collections, All Caps 004 comprises tracks recorded between 1994 - 96. The three tunes here are so good it seems impossible they were collecting dust for a couple of decades.
"20 (1996)" is vintage space-age techno, hissing through a zig-zag path of wonky chords and dusty drums. Breaking down a few separate times, it has the freeform feel of a live jam recorded straight to tape. "81 (1994)" is a tantalizing trifle that immerses standard drum sounds in thick rainforest atmospherics, but the release really strikes oil with the "05 Edit (1995)." Even more winding than the A-side, with its twangy melody and slight world music touches, it sounds like a lost William Orbit demo from the late '90s. When the Mellotron-style synths come out for the mystical, drifting second half, it's easy to forget that you were initially listening to techno. Evans' music sits somewhere between the prettier end of mid-'90s IDM and Detroit techno, invoking familiar references without really sounding like anything else out there.
TracklistA 20 (1996)
B1 81 (1994)
B2 05 Edit (1995)