Motor / Muscle / Movement

Digital only release on all major worldwide platforms

"the Motor / Muscle / Movement EP kicks off with the title track – a 120bpm contemporary machine-funk workout replete with sub bass, arpeggiated analog synths, guitar chops and cowbells. A striding and cocksure dance track with an ever-so-slightly sinister undertone and plenty of machismo overtones. Think Daniel Avery ft. Nile Rogers signed to DFA and aiming at a mid-Atlantic dancefloor full of borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered 80s of electro-afro-futurism – only, a little more understated than that (no big shoulder pads)

Jones Terrace follows – also at 120 bpm – with even more arpeggiated analogue synths, this time wrapped in a fuzz of filtered and delayed distant radio waves that break into a jittery, skittery (but somehow still relaxed) groove that never quite settles down but never quite loses control either. This one is reminiscent of other Scandinavian cosmic disco (Todd Terje/Lindström et al) but also nods in the direction of Caribou, Boards of Canada, John Carpenter and the Deus Ex soundtrack.

finally comes Motor / Muscle / Movement (synaptic derivation) – an almost unrecognisable rework of the title track that takes it to a more cerebral place for a very headphone friendly tickle of both the cortex & frontal lobe. Filtered tape hiss, delayed kalimba riffs and evolving analogue synth motifs are the order of the day here, spinning and cascading around a firm and persistent 4-to-the-floor kick, dubby liquid bass guitar & fickle percussion. This is a soundtrack to a late-night drive through an abandoned industrial estate that’s slowly but surely becoming recolonised by the incessant creeping growth of mutant plants pushing their way up through concrete floors and stretching their tendrils toward the naked, shattered, rusting skylights. "