DJ BALDUIN Schallplatten & CDs

Review: German DJ and producer Balduin maps depthy terrains of ambient and trance-dance with thermoset sonics, on the new three-track EP 'Everything'. Few house music producers take pains to add extra "delicacy" to their beats and textures, but the opener 'You' proves Balduin an exception. A faint tapey warble on a pre-drop vocal sample ("you... are everything") professes much extra care and an ear for nuance, if not for the declarative concern for the listener themselves, hinted at in the sample. The same sculpted textures are plied out further on 'Somar', which works ultra-subtle arps behind relatively syncopated beats, and 'Andever', on which what sounds like pigeon-automata sing faint cooing songs against the EP's knockiest beats.