Review: It's always amazing to get a six-track EP with each tune of a high standard, markedly different, but not so much so as to render the release a mixed bag in the ears of those looking for a specific sound. In Dampe's case, that sound is warm, rich, and informed by the mythologies of rave culture. A description that does and doesn't apply to everything on Glow.
Take the appropriately-named 'Rave Emo Tool (Like Me)', for example. A simple, spiralling synth picking up echo, refrain, and flanges, winding up like day glow contemporary classical. This then gives way to 'Twenty Two Savanna' and its classy, spatial, drum & bass stylings, while efforts like 'Through The C10' and 'King Tide' are, respectively, epic progressive ambient builders and leftfield broken garage bass. All that before we mention top of the pile, 'Glow' - a hands in the air future house bomb.
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