- Clean, spangly and unhurried, Argentine producers Raul Carrasco & Javier Orlando's Diagramas EP is tech-kissed house that could have been made at just about any point over the last ten years, with no gain or loss in resonance. That doesn't mean it's necessarily a classic—just that its cool verve gives it some of its flexibility.
So, of course, do the basslines, which undergird all three tracks with a rubbery bustle—particularly on "Astro," the final cut and the busiest bassline of the bunch, but also on the comparatively simple pulse of "La Santa," which briefly gives way for a subtle build-up that is helped along by dry-ice-like filtering.
The surfaces tend to shine metallically here. The refracted synth lines of "La Santa" could have fit comfortably on Mr. C's 100% Subterranean, back when "tech house" was a new term. "Diagramas" itself is built on flickering keyboard patterns that seem to pop up of their own accord rather than having been played. It doesn't do anything too drastic, but it can still buoy a room.
Tracklist01. Diagramas
02. La Santa
03. Astro