- If you were asked to ID the Black Tekno EP, the long-in-the-works second release on Infinitestatemachine head honcho (and Resident Advisor contributor) Thomas Cox's Love What You Feel imprint, you'd probably peg it as a Mathematics EP. No surprise, then, that these five demented cuts come courtesy of Noleian Reusse, a guy whose only previous solo outing, from 2005, was released on that label, and who claims membership in the duo Africans With Mainframes with Mathematics mastermind Jamal Moss. In timbre and in attitude, the Black Tekno EP is of a piece with that Chicago imprint's crusty-mainframe aesthetic. But this EP is hardly one label's work bearing another's logo.
Playing like a garage band whose entire musical vocabulary is derived from a stack of damaged Trax records (with a stray Mala dubplate or two mixed in), Reusse has crafted a collection of (unnamed) tracks neither wholly organic nor entirely mechanical. Beginning on a prickly Chicago tip, the EP quickly transitions into stranger territory. As the journey continues, we're treated to what is apparently Sufjan Stevens' lost halfstep sideproject; the soundtrack to a zero-budget space odyssey; and a techno banger composed of sneakers rattling around in the dryer. Don't expect to hear these tunes out much, but lovers of club music will certainly appreciate this release's considerable eccentricities.
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B1 Untitled
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