Peter Van Hoesen - Echoes From Westbrook Bay

  • Time To Express returns in fine style.
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  • In 2019, Peter Van Hoesen scoured his archives and released a three-part compilation on Time To Express, unearthing 52 tracks made between 2008-2018. An arduous labour of love, Uncovered called time on an older phase of his career, allowing him to focus on Center 91, a new label that draws from his memories of the '90s Belgian underground. While the records on Center 91 are still novel compared to most techno, Van Hoesen's return to Time To Express will be welcome news to fans of his more revered, future-facing experiments. If you're into this sound and Echoes From Westbrook Bay doesn't make you want to lose your marbles in front of a Funktion-One stack, then nothing will. The pitch-black, barrelling opener scatters in every direction, leaving the forward motion to the more functional cuts to come. "Allocators" is flawlessly produced, purist techno with crystalline bleeps and a rubber bassline. The only breakdown is all of three seconds long, but will feel ten times the length in the vortex this sound creates. "Leaning" is more obviously primed for the peak hours, without ever needing to resort to hard-edged sounds. Setting up the epic closer "Block By Block," which sounds like the world is melting around you, is an en vogue cut of abstract drum and bass in the vein of recent Mike Parker and Konduku drops. It rounds off a classy EP that shows Van Hoesen is still lightyears ahead of most of his peers.
  • Tracklist
      01. Echoes From Westbrook Bay 02. Allocators 03. Leaning 04. Consider The Source 05. Waving Not Drowning 06. Block By Block
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