FEDERSEN Vinyl & CDs

Review: Coming in hot after last year's Pura Lempuyang compilation is this new two part 12" offering up cuts from it on limited edition turquoise wax. Dib kicks off with 'Cieloterra' which is a devilishly deep and dubby techno cut with fizzing synths running across its face. Federsen is much more smooth and silky with liquid pads and a sublime sense of frictionless groove to his 'Random Motion' while Grad U offers more heavy and stumbling dub quakes on 'From The Shadows.' Last of all is Altone's 'Emergent Structure,' a lush minimal excursion with deft hits and feathery pads over sublime drums.

Review: If you ask us, there is no better time to listen to dub techno than on a grey and drizzling autumnal day. And as we sit hit typing that is exactly the weather outside. Ohm & Federsen's opening cut 'Sequence' is the perfect soundtrack with its misty aesthetic, fathoms-deep drums and greyscale atmospheres. Subset's 'Falling To Iguazu' is a little more optimistic and light with its delicate synths and watery dub effects, while Schulz Audio layers up scuffed kicks and ever so slightly more funky bass movement on 'C-500A' and Upwellings close with the upright techno drums and rattling dub chords of the perfectly frosty 'Sand On Wax.'