- It's easy to see why Powell is such a fan of EVOL. Both see the past as something to appropriate and fuck with, dealing with rave in their own noisy ways, and they're both out to push the boundaries of dance music. EVOL (founder Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Stephen Sharp) joined Diagonal at a label night in London in 2014, which was recorded and released as a five-part cassette compilation by Reel Torque. But EVOL's proper Diagonal debut was last year's Flapper That, a 20-minute-long endurance test that sent a single acid line boinging and squirming into the void. Their latest, Right Frankfurt, is more of the same, only slightly longer and much, much faster.
Right Frankfurt is another exercise in "rave synthesis," a self-coined concept EVOL have been plundering since 2010's Rave Slime. They have produced several EPs, albums, cassettes, multimedia pieces and art exhibitions since, all from boiled-down techno tropes (such as the Hoover) that are reassembled into angular, repetitive, non-dance floor compositions.
Right Frankfurt is a bare-bones record, micro-compositional and highly concentrated. It's designed to bore into your skull, numbing it or deeply stimulating it. You'll find yourself focusing on the minuscule, nuanced complexities as they explode into a rollicking squiggle of unpredictability. The music is almost functional, though that's probably not the point of these tracks.
TracklistA Right Frankfurt (Part 1)
B Right Frankfurt (Part 2)