Anva Germany Schallplatten & CDs

Review: The third outing from Anva further heightens its credentials as a new school minimal label with a unique and appealing sound. Tagir steps up for this one and brings great drama and menace to the opening offering, 'Virgini.' The rolling drums land with great weight and spooky pads bring the haunting vibes. 'Movement' is another taught, twanging tech house workout with detuned chords and spat-out hits that are coloured by suspensory 80s chords. Melchior Productions LTD remixes with his signature frictionless drum sounds and super smooth loops for 13 magic minutes.

Review: Since launching the Anva imprint in 2019, Tagir has used it as a vehicle for his own productions - albeit one with a notably sparse and sporadic release schedule. Here he continues that theme, offering up an atmospheric four-tracker made in cahoots with Indigo Minds (an outfit he previously worked with as part of the Jerry collective). They begin with 'Meditation Dance', a ghostly chunk of mind-bending minimal house moodiness full of glitchy grooves, weird noises and trippy spoken word samples (horror techno anyone?), before opting for warped bass, jacking tech-house beats and reggae-inspired stabs on 'Bandit'. Over on side B, 'Donut' is a shuffling slab of druggy tech-house insomnia, while 'Jack' is a stripped-back mix of Ricardo Villalobos noises, deep sub-bass, off-kilter minimal techno beats and strange electronic noises.