E L O N - Western Pacific

  • What if Ennio Morricone made dub techno?
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  • As part of Streetwalker, White Car and as a solo artist, Los Angeles producer Elon Katz has built a reputation for a bracing synth pop variant that's equally impressive and uncomfortable. But his last few solo releases, like the electro-tinged Pneumania album and the just-released All Wells Dry EP—on Katz's Zero Grow label—feel less antic and more subdued. My favorite off the excellent EP is "Western Pacific," a liminal dub techno track with mellow, breakbeat-adjacent percussion and cinematic synth guitar that could score a showdown at the O.K. Corral, space western edition.
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