- Languid ambient and house.
- The title track of Nadia Khan's latest record for New York label Scissor & Thread could go on three times as long and it wouldn't get old. The synths flow and ripple with a soothing, uncompressed stillness. It introduces a style of unimposing, intimate minimalism that colours the whole release.
"Conversation," the only beat-driven original on the record, has a deep pulse, resembling a lighter version of Wolfgang Voigt's forest floor explorations as GAS. Its low-fat sound design prods and probes without ever shifting gears. The other original cuts head back into beatless spheres, with more propulsion than "Port Ana," but still beautifully fragile. The long echoed notes on "Objects In Form" sound like classic dub techno stripped to its most intimate parts.
Lawrence is a perfect choice for the remixes. With such elegant source material, the Dial Records cofounder doesn't need to do much to repurpose "Rain Again." Both remixes are smooth and glassy, adding crisp kicks and a soft bassline to make Khan's glistening synths fit for a dance floor.
Tracklist01. Port Ana
02. Conversation
03. Objects In Form
04. Rain Again
05. Rain Again (Lawrence Remix 1)
06. Rain Again (Lawrence Remix 2)