- Evocative and colourful music for the dancers.
- Octo Octa makes music for the body. Whether she's playing solo or together with Eris Drew (her partner in both work and love), Octo Octa's palette is energetic, ecstatic and kinetic. Her DJing encourages a release both physical and emotional. Her productions, which fit neatly into her DJ sets, explore the idea of electronic music as ritual. Dreams Of A Dancefloor, her latest EP, is less about ritual and more about physicality: dancing in nature, intimacy, the togetherness that defines Octo Octa's presence in dance music.
Across its three tracks, Dreams Of A Dancefloor moves through sensual trance to acid-laced, pacy breakbeat, before dipping back down again into softly chiming house. "Late Night Love," the opening track clocking in at almost 12 minutes, is intricately layered and meditative, underpinned by a squelchy synth line. As the track evolves, synth pads bloom from the ether and melt into one another—it's something like the haze of a mind-bending night on the dance floor. "Let Yourself Go" captures the same nostalgic '90s energy of 2019's Resonant Body LP, with its ravey vocal riffs, the rumble of the low-end and an acid line that wriggles up and down. Compared to its entrancing predecessor, "Let Yourself Go" feels urgent, accelerating towards that all-important release.
The closing track, "Come Here, Let's Commune," brings things back to earth, with soft, bright notes that recall droplets falling from the sky and sending quivering circles rippling across a glassy, watery surface. Crisp percussion and chiming piano notes accompany the low, elastic twang of the bass synth.
In Resident Advisor's book Sacred Spaces, Octo Octa and Eris Drew wrote a love letter to a night they played back-to-back at Panorama Bar. "We were there together," they wrote, "not to be the other's dancer, but to weave as one." Dreams Of A Dancefloor captures that feeling of two bodies folding into one another like origami, finding love and physical connection in the Motherbeat.
Tracklist01. Late Night Love
02. Let Yourself Go!
03. Come Here, Let's Commune