Air Max '97 - Coriolis

  • The experimental club music master mines from razor-sharp industrial dancehall and UK club music on his return to his own DECISIONS label.
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  • For seven years now, Air Max '97's DECISIONS label has been a reliable home base for the kind of risk-taking club music that floats within the orbit of artists like Batu, Ziúr and Aya—club music mensches who have a predilection for deranged, imploding polyrhythms. At his most extreme, the Australian producer, real name Oliver van der Lugt, can churn out blistering kicks and end-of-days synths designed to pummel the minds of innocent club goers to a pulp. His first record on his own imprint in three years, Coriolis, almost feels tame in comparison, even if it's an EP that builds sounds up just to gleefully tear them down. The lurching dubstep of "Collapsing Void" is frequently gutted by quiet intermissions and babbling animal sounds. On the low-slung industrial dancehall cut "Mouthfeel," a rhythm is usurped by electronic whirs and malimba sounds skitter like fallen Jenga pieces. The opener "Coriolis" teems with the most energy, nestling a dancehall beat between climactic alarm beeps. Like the best of van der Lugt's work, the mayhem lies in the erratic sound design, a landscape where nimble percussion often burrows into punchdrunk bass and knotty vortexes of sound.
  • Tracklist
      01. Coriolis 02. Mouthfeel 03. Collapsing Void
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