TRAUMER Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Parisian smooth groovers Lazare Hoche team up with Traumer to deliver this fresh transmission of subliminal minimal house from the heart of the French underground. "Seascape" is a perfectly measured trip through shimmering synth pulses and a hypnotic rhythmic tick, contrasting neatly with the weighty thump of "Compas" which opens up the B-side. "Belhara" closes the record out with some gorgeous ambient melodic threads that flirt around a pumped up beat that counts among the most uptempo work that has been put out on Lazare Hoche. It's another classy addition to the label's catalogue, sure to find favour with scores of the minimal house fraternity.

Review: ***B-STOCK: Creasing to corner of outer sleeve with split spine but otherwise in excellent condition***


After a run of rock-solid releases on his own GETTRAUM imprint, Romain Raynaud AKA Traumer has decided to mix things up via a first outing on German imprint Subtil. The headline attraction is undoubtedly A-side "Temple", an attractive, ear-catching chunk of retro-futurist tech-house powered forwards by deep, undulating sub-bass, sparkling choral synth-sounds and fizzing, deep space melodies. Over on side B, "Spheria" is an altogether chunkier, deeper and darker tech-house box jam, while closing cut "Fortuna" cloaks a typically rolling, glitch-sporting beat in heavenly chords and the kind of rush-inducing operatic vocal samples that were such a feature of turn-of-the-90s classics such as Orbitak's "Belfast" and the Beloved's "The Sun Rising".