Review: Last year's superb Pura Lempuyang album has been pulled apart and served up on a couple of separate 12"s and this is the second one. It comes on limited turquoise vinyl and offers four cuts of stylish deep dub and techno. Fletcher's 'It's A Virtue' goes first with taught, twanging bass and grubby basslines then Mike Schommer's 'Kingmaker' offers liquid dub funk with watery pads and hissing static. Nicolas Barnes picks it up a little with a darker but still warm dub techno roller in 'Sonic Dial' and Redrop's 'Genesis' is the more driving of the lot but again exists right on the ocean floor.
Review: The Aquit label is pumping out plenty of superb releases right now and this one is no expiation. It is the work of Detroit native Nate Nubia who has long been making plenty of D Town techno on labels like his imprint Infra under the moniker Nate Krafft. He has worked under various other names since but here returns to that OG sound after a long hiatus working on other projects. 'Capricorn & Sagittarius' in its original form is a supple and sublime deep-tech work with soulful machine sounds and balmy cosmic pads served up in painterly fashion. A G-Prod remix gets more punchy and a DX-9 remix comes alive with swirling synth arps.
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