- Unpredictable club music from an exciting New York label.
- New York's Kindergarten Records have cultivated a strong musical identity in just over a year of existence, thanks to a broad but cohesive taste in techno and club music that’s bass-heavy and chewed up, yet always direct and slickly delivered.
Ayesha is a New York-based producer who has also developed an impressively distinctive style across just a few releases. Taking up half of this split EP, "Varanasi" and "Downpour" are a pair of dense and forceful tracks built from breaks, chimes and spiraling percussive loops. Both are so rhythmically and texturally busy they seem to take up all available space on the frequency range, but they somehow retain the organic, humid feeling that she made her signature on her last release for Kindergarten, Natural Phenomenon.
"Mechanical Rustle" by Ma Sha Ru (who runs Kindergarten alongside Ruggero Cavazzini) is the EP's standout track. Featuring Ma Sha's deadpan vocals and a huge, bending bassline, it's satisfyingly uncomplicated and devastating in the right context (as Ehua demonstrated on her recent RA Podcast). "Seismic Energy" is for the weirdest part of a night, starting with harsh, gravelly breaks and then devolving into complete disorder after a noisy breakdown. In different ways, each track on Ether sums up what Kindergarten have excelled at so far: big, exciting and unexpected club moments.
Tracklist01. Varanasi
02. Downpour
03. Mechanical Rustle
04. Seismic Energy