AYBEE Presents The Bazile Republic - Strange Visitors

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  • Aybee has debuted a new alias, The Bazile Republic, for Burek's 10th release, and once you hit play on Strange Visitors you can see why. There's an intensity and velocity that is atypical of Aybee's recent work, and this is most apparent on the EP's title track. Its unyielding kicks and rich tones have a techno sensibility, but the track's softer percussive pieces—shakers, tambourines, subtle tribal snares—keep it supple. The arid synth lines on "Motion Of Attraction" sound like a poker-faced trance/techno crossover. It makes the track sound dramatic in that stiff way that some '90s techno does, but it takes the best parts of that energy and distils it. Aybee's past music is more recognisable on the disordered satellite bleeps of "The Sacred Smoke," but even here it feels guided more by the spaced-out techno of, say, Terrence Dixon than Aybee's oft-cited muse Ron Trent.
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      A1 Strange Visitors B1 Motion Of Attraction B2 The Sacred Smoke I
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