- For their latest A&R excursion, Nils Noa and Christian Sol limit their gaze solely to their home country of Norway and four relatively unknown producers. Doused in moody shades and with a faint undercurrent of bristling menace, it's impossible to say whether you'd guess the geographical origins of the EP, but in retrospect these tracks certainly seem to denote the darkening skies of the fast-approaching Norwegian winter.
The juddering, percussion-heavy throb of Alex Jangle's "Kappadokia" kicks things off, a cataclysmic collision of woody drums and fierce, whipping synths that burrows into your eardrums like a hungry parasite, before Joachim Holm follows this brutal introduction with a sparser, more soothing groove. Building itself around a two-note, heavily reverbed pulse that gathers momentum into the breakdown, it packs a subtle but undeniable punch.
Ilves & Migova demonstrate a gentler hand with "The South," which while maintaining the pace constitutes little more than a looped, washed-out pad and a few atmospheric glitches, but constructed in such a fashion that the end result is utterly hypnotic. Finally Tobii's "That's It" represents the most languid moment on the EP, with a substantially lowered BPM and muted vocal rhythms acting as prologue to the cacophony that greets you during the break.
Tracklist01. Alex Jangle – Kappadokia
02. Joachim Holm – Querido
03. Ilves & Migova – The South
04. Tobii – That’s It