- Dusty house meets algorave, kind of.
- The label PicNic34 is named after an Italian snack bar its founders—Lucretio & Marieu, AKA The Analogue Cops, and fellow Italians Mannella and Francesco Devincenti—used to visit in Berlin. PicNic34 has so far been a platform for its founders, who specialise in live hardware jams, to collaborate in different configurations. The latest is Ordering Instructions, AKA Manella and Marieu, which also comes with two reworks from Lucretio under his real name, Domenico Cipriani. If you haven't kept up with The Analogue Cops and their extended family, you might be happy to know they've kept their rustic charm while adding a new, leftfield edge.
"Dish 1" is pretty straightforward, but there's a lot happening in the claustrophobic space between its bulldozing kicks. "Dish 2" has more room and cool sound design—imagine an old Robert Hood track kitted out with intricate panning effects and new age pads. The adventurous panning comes to the fore on Cipriani's "Remix 1," which feels like he put one of the originals in a woodchipper and made something new with the pieces.
Cipriani's remixes are based on a "personalized" version of Global Sequencer in the Kyma programming language created by Cristian Vogel. (The software uses scripting to generate new sequences.) It's not quite algorave, but it offers a fresh take on Cipriani's style of house, which becomes even stranger on the second remix. It feels unstable, driven more by the bassline than the drums, which land in random patters. By combining the ramshackle groove of The Analogue Cops with ultra-modern production, Cipriani suggests a new way forward.
TracklistA1 Dish 1
A2 Dish 2
B1 Remix 1 (Domenico Cipriani)
B2 Remix 2 (Domenico Cipriani)