- Tehran-born Kasra Vaseghi has been best known for his Love Fever residency and bi-weekly Paradise show on NTS. His latest record and the recent The Persian Prince EP (also released on Andy Bird's Make Love In Public Spaces label) both suggest that the 21-year-old's productions are also worth keeping tabs on. Cosmic and shimmering, Atlantis isn't perfect, but it's another impressive staging post early in the career of an artist who cut his teeth DJing illegally in the Iranian capital before moving to London in his late-teens.
Nearly beatless, opener "The Old Empire" drops action film dialogue into a sinister brew of B-movie pads and discordant bass and synth. It's a good introduction to the spacey atmosphere of Atlantis. "Frenzy" is the pick of the trio: the track's dense spine of simmering bass and live-sounding drums is topped by vocoders that work well as extra synth lines. "Connected" has a background glow that recalls DJ Koze's "XTC." Vaseghi adds a thick, groaning bass groove to it, along with humid pads and more skittering live drums, hitting on a pleasingly submerged sort of classic house sound.
TracklistA1 The Old Empire
A2 Frenzy
B1 Connected