October vs. Voodoo Down - Las Modelos

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  • October and Voodoo Down go back a ways, having worked on the former's Unstable Phenomenon 12-inch in 2013. The label's latest is a collaboration between the two camps, made in winter 2013 at Voodoo Down's New York base. "Las Modelos" features label co-founders 12 x 12, N'Conduit and L'estasi Dell'oro alongside October, and it's about as distilled a piece of techno as you might expect from this lot. The track is named after the beer that was being consumed when it was made, and it has the feel of a boozy one-off session. Not that its clipped chords and muscular percussion aren't entirely fit for purpose, but with a bit of studio finessing it's easy to imagine those spacey effects being a bit wilder, the synths more finely articulated. For his "12 Month Dub" of the track, October does the opposite, stripping away the detail to expose the track's icy skeleton. At first the arrangement is almost too empty, frosted with tape-hiss and punctuated with the odd sonar bleep. But after a few minutes it explodes in a gorgeous cascade of Basic Channel-style delay effects. It's such a dramatic moment that you can't blame October for repeating it a couple more times.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Las Modelos B1 Las Modelos (October’s 12 Months Dub)
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