Befomo & Jasper Wolff & Maarten Mittendorff - Lost Archives (Part IV)

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  • Launched in February 2013, Dutch imprint Indigo Aera's four-part Lost Archives series has so far made good on its intention: to unearth buried gems. Tracks like Claude Young and Takasi Nakajima's "Think Twice," Makam's "Lion King" and Jonas Kopp's "Telergia" are proof of this. More than 12 months on from the penultimate EP, the final two-tracker features Befomo, an old alias of Rotterdam's Benny Rodrigues, and label heads Jasper Wolff & Maarten Mittendorff. Like its predecessors, Lost Archives IV is another rock-solid outing. The cosmic opener "Hugs From The D" was lifted from an album Rodrigues made several years ago, with no intention of it ever seeing the light of day (an email exchange with Derrick May made him change his mind). As heavenly pads glide over a jostling drum break, it's easy to see why May was a fan. You can imagine him liking the B-side, too. "Symmetrical" is the kind of sleek, soulful techno that Indigo Aera has become synonymous with, strapping echoed stabs, unruly snares and comet-like flares to a surging beat. Wolff and Mittendorff sign off in a beatless, emotional swirl of pads, a fittingly moving end to a memorable series.
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      A1 Befomo - Hugs From The D B1 Jasper Wolff & Maarten Mittendorff - Symmetrical
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