Soramimi - Rapture Insignia

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  • New Yorkers Soramimi and Cory James launched their Dusk Notes label last year with a solid split EP. Jettatura painted the former as a hardware whiz capable of finding beauty in the stormiest of synth workouts, while James plied snarling, atmospheric techno. A year later, Soramimi returns for a solo turn that pulls her loose threads together just enough to make sense on the dance floor, while keeping her taste for exploratory sound and composition. Only "Moon Mourning" reflects the gurgling slosh that defined Soramimi's previous effort. It's an Ekoplekz-ish experiment in harnessing murky underwater electronics, with darting buzzes that sound like electric eels. Jordan attempts to pull it together with a kick drum on his remix, but instead of framing the track, his rhythm pushes everything out so the atmospherics swirl around his foundation. It's a pleasing approach that offers more than your average dance floor makeover. "The Fourth Wall" and "The Fifth Wall" are more controlled than "Moon Mourning." The former thunders by slowly, dunked in what sounds like a bottomless pool of reverb. The softer "The Fifth Wall" brings in pearly textures borrowed from dub techno, which soften the straightforward attack. Both tunes are the most club-ready we've heard from Soramimi, yet they're defiantly non-functional. With two releases on deck, it's clear that Dusk Notes' techno is meant to be generative and volatile. It's an approach that uses quantized grids not as a limitation but as a platform to do freaky things.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Moon Mourning A2 Moon Mourning (Jordan Remix) B1 The Fourth Wall B2 The Fifth Wall
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