- Filled with off-pattern snares, disappearing/reappearing cowbells and oddly apportioned synths, Interstellar Freeform Movement might best be described as an experiment in doing all the wrong things at all the wrong times and eventually emerging better off for it. This is just the second release for I.F.M., a collaboration between Marcello Napoletano and Francesco Schito for their newly-formed label Fottute Registrazione. Napoletano, emerging from strong releases for Mathematics and Your House is Hour Rush, lends an expert's sense of backbone to the five track EP.
An ebullient and mutilated ode to Trax-era house and (as the pair's soundcloud page notes) Schito's release from prison, I.F.M.'s taste for deranged, analogue jack is nowhere more fully stated than on "Robert Crash Moody Edit," a tumble of chirps against a slurred breakbeat or "Dark Energy Cut"—a floor-ready track with spare, mutilated synths and drilling percussion. In an era where many producers are looking to the fundamentals of house for inspiration, this is the kind of twisted product that makes good on looking backwards.
Tracklist A1 Day One
A2 Robert Crash (Moody Edit)
A3 Third Freedom Day
B1 Freedom Analog
B2 Dark Energy Cut