- Sleep D, the production duo who run Butter Sessions, keep things local. They nurture Australian talent, helping to establish Melbourne as an independent scene rather than a stepping stone for local producers on the way to Europe. Their recent collaborations have also stayed close to home, recording two EPs this year with Albrecht La'Brooy, the duo behind the local label Analogue Attic. The four producers share a taste for expansive live sets and dense atmospherics, and their styles fuse on this polished release from a scene hitting its prime.
Albrecht La'Brooy bring a soft-focus ambience to the productions, with synths that swell and drifting piano figures from the DJ Sprinkles playbook on "Marshland." Sleep D's signature is heard clearest in the EP's sophisticated rhythms, ranging from gentle hand percussion to elastic electro on "Limestone" and the surging kick on "31 Degrees," the only peak club cut. The whole EP is sequenced like a mini-album with a beatless intro and outro, peaking with the wistful melancholy of the title track, where murmured voices are only just audible over the patter of the rain.
Tracklist01. Marshland
02. After The Rain
03. Limestone
04. 31 Degrees
05. Bogged