- In some ways, the world of Rushing Into Water is like that of Salon Des Amateurs, where Tolouse Low Trax, AKA Detlef Weinrich, is a co-owner and resident DJ. With two DJs at Salon each night, selectors tend to take their time, starting slow and perhaps never really making it to a "proper" dance music BPM. Likewise, each track of Weinrich's EP takes its time unfolding (the shortest is just under seven minutes). There's also an uncanny quality here: the sounds in these three tracks, like being in the club itself, evoke a strange sense of déjà vu.
Rushing Into Water directly recalls Tolouse Low Trax's 2010 album, Mask Talk, particularly the concept of "intempesta," a liminal zone between midnight and dawn. Both are largely outside a rigid 4/4 paradigm, sounding more delirious and nomadic. The title track's vocal samples have a middle-of-the-night aura, surrounded by nocturnal insects, and the loose percussion builds with each repetition of the mysterious voices.
"In Quicksilver" works like the titular liquid metal—as soon as the groove seems to settle, it moves in a new, unexpected direction. "Reserves To Talk" also seems to come from an atemporal place, somewhere between post-punk, krautrock, new wave and some other futurist genre conceived in the mid-20th century. With Rushing Into Water, Weinrich has created three distinct worlds unified by their disconnection from any single time or place.
TracklistA1 Rushing Into Water
B1 In Quicksilver
B2 Reserves To Talk