- On his transfixing EP Mind Music, Luv Jam, AKA Andrew Cole, exhibits an impressive ability to play with architecture where only the idea of architecture would seem to exist, like columns made from vapor and steam. Each of the five tracks—which run more than 37 minutes in total—is a billowing, bellowing mass, with lots of gravity but very little weight to answer for. "Alyn" opens with slow, sloshing pads that cross back and forth over gentle stabs and taps arranged in the manner of something between dub techno and house. But everything's too crystalline and clear to count as dub, and too woozy and atmospheric to count as house. "Bryan" follows in a similar mode, but with a beat that cracks—minimally and with more than a little brittleness, but a crack nonetheless.
Luv Jam showcases a remarkable amount of control and restraint at the opening, and it carries on throughout. "Keyth" brings more bass to the fore, with more fullness in the throb, before "Mykel" slows down even more to just barely a crawl. The latter sounds like Aphex Twin played at the wrong speed and then screwed in addition, but then "Just for You" finishes off with a little jump to it—a sort of fleeting skippiness that sounds like a natural outgrowth of so much sublimation otherwise.
Tracklist 01. Alyn
02. Bryan
03. Keyth
04. Mykel
05. Just for You