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𝙎ä𝙝𝙠ö’𝙨 𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙟𝙖𝙯𝙯 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙤 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙮𝙥𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝟰𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙𝙨, 𝙍𝙤𝙢é𝙤 𝙋𝙤𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙧, 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙤 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙤.

The revered Finnish label’s programming skills are A+ on this one, coaxing out an unusual yet seductive alternative side to minimal techno artist Bruno Pronsato, alongside more atypical parts of enigmatic hush and finesse from sferic and Faitiche regular, Roméo Poirier, and Bristol’s Memotone on return to the fold after a superb self-titled EP in ’23.

A key player in the ’00s minimal techno movement, Berlin-based US artist Bruno Pronsato transposes that sound’s crisp, spacious detailing and fluidity to downtempo frameworks in an ace A-side ‘Above the Launderette (Manières Bizarres Mix)’, with 12 mins of sublime, noirish tension that feels like a particularly oddball Perlon number played at 33 not 45RPM at a David Lynch afterparty.

Romeo Poirier opens the B-side nearly 10 years since ‘Plage Arrière’ placed them on the map, gauzily saluting/squinting at the distant inspiration of Jon Hassell with the blurred brass plumes and pulses of ‘Thalassocratie’ that also recall the vertiginous scope of Eli Keszler, and beautifully in key with the weightless jazz physics to Memotone’s sylvan inscape, ‘The Way In(side).’