Iori - Unknown Place EP

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  • With all the faux throwback minimal and house being tossed about the electronic music community these days, it's nice to see producers and labels reaching just a little farther and a little more to the left with their approach. Prologue Records shot out of the gate two years ago with a string of successful yet largely unnoticed releases by some unknown names, taking chances where most others would shy away. Newest to the pack is Japanese producer iORi. "Unknown Place" is a driving, spaced-out adventure of a track. Simplicity is the key notion here: Caustic, metallic percussion nestle politely with hypnotic atmospheric washes that, accompanied by the dubbed bass, warm things up nicely. Continuing where the title track leaves off, "Magnetic" is a deep and heady scorcher. The slowly growing acid line that reveals itself over the course of ten minutes is married to an equally as slow-building and evolving synth. A track meant for the patient listener and DJ, it shows an astounding amount of depth for such a relatively new producer. Finishing things off, "Dial" drops the BPM's and heads to the mid-'90s with a squared bassline and teasing 303 beeps. Always building but never reaching a head, most will argue it does "too little, too late," but fans of the sound will feel this--like the rest of the EP--is a brilliant start to a reinterpretation of techno's past that many are patiently awaiting.
  • Tracklist
      01. Unknown Place 02. Magnetic 03. Dial
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