- Klartraum follow up a fine brace of reworkings for Terje Saether's recent Breed EP on their label, Lucidflow, with a clutch of ultra deep remixes of their own "Helping Witness." The duo of Nadja Lind and Helmut Ebritsch have a swagger about them at present, bolstered by the original mix here. Rolling along to a snappy rhythm with a feint whiff of 2-step, it's punctuated by subtle Rhodes and piano stabs and minimal flourishes.
Fellow Berlin resident Helly Larson's take doesn't quite have you in a headlock like the original; there's no denying it gives off a warm glow from its afterburners as it jets off into the deep house cosmos, but it'll be a little too sedate for some. Melbourne's Mark Baumann, who runs Aussie label Pinksilver, rolls his sleeves up and gets stuck into his duties in his Markojux guise. To a nagging prog trance-like undercurrent, Baumann adds frilly piano motifs and what sounds like a cat on slow spin in a tumble dryer.
It's pipped at the post for the go-to track on this EP by Yapacc, though. As befits a man who has designed and demonstrated equipment for synth and module manufacturer MFB, it's technically adroit, low-slung tech funk, with neat ambient touches and frequent textural shifts.
Tracklist01. Helping Witness
02. Helping Witness (Helly Larson Remix)
03. Helping Witness (Markojux Coast Road Remix)
04. Helping Witness (Yapacc Remix)