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Experimental club music that’s actually really good
LOFT is a new artist to emerge from the Astral Plane record label, slamming his placeless, genreless electronic music into the mix with his debut EP Turbulent Dynamics. It’s a clever, queasy-sounding release that plays with ideas of glitch and the psychedelic, and ends up sounding throughout like the experience of being on drugs and not quite sure whether it’s the most fun ever or the end of all things. Joel Sinclair created the trippy, glitchy album art that looks a bit like a CD-ROM with hyperlinks on it.
‘Random’ is a good word to describe EP opener ‘yes’. It’s noise, punctuated by grungy samples of men screaming – surprisingly pleasant to listen to, probably because when you listen closely, you realise it’s actually a pretty intelligent, mathematical drum solo. Leftfield techno ‘Zissou’ melts at various points throughout into musical tangents which distort time signature and beat and its video looks like it sounds. ‘With Eye Contact’ is softer and bears the influence of wonky beatmakers like Lapalux and even seems to reference SOPHIE in its water droplet-sounding samples and buzzing bassline. ‘Heffalump’ is the EP’s most droppable bit of techno in terms of the dance floor, and it’s a legitimate 6am stomper.
At this point, LOFT could choose to reel in the masses with his clear knack for tech grooves, or wade further into less-explored dance beats, they both work out for him.
