- As RA's Ryan Keeling recently discovered, Diskotopia founders Matt Lyne and Brian Durr aren't ones to be shackled to a single style. True to form, Durr's latest EP as BD1982 follows the angular grime of 2013's Casings and last year's unplaceable Operatorr with something new. The best precedent for Salience's galumphing grooves might be the eccentric micro-house of Workshop, but it's the traces of grimy rudeness that mark its highlights.
Take "Spatial": its momentum comes from the layers of percussive decoration, which flicker seductively in and out of focus. The track's heft, though, is in its dive-bombing bass and freezing synth gusts, neither of which would sound out of place in a Rabit tune. Likewise with "Physical," whose semitonal synth line is pinned under a chunky kick. Ever concerned with detail, Durr throws in the occasional splash of bell-like resonance for colour. "Obeah Mirrors," which buries Visionist-style re-pitched voices beneath its tech-house bump, sounds anodyne by comparison. Fellow Diskotopian Myakkah turns in a gauzy edit of "Rotary Drive," and its finicky layering and treacly rhythms sound right at home.
Tracklist01. Spatial
02. Physical
03. Obeah Mirrors
04. Rotary Drive (Myakkah Edit)