Zathdax vinyl

Hailing from St Petersburg, Nocow provides the first instalment in local collective Roots United's label venture. Drawing on established house and techno tropes - in particular, "Solstice" is a wonderfully deep Detroit-style jam - but adding his own flavour, Zathdax shows that Nocow is becoming an extremely distinctive artist. The title track is an incessant, acid-soaked jack track, embellished by the use of a human beatbox. At the other end of the spectrum, there's "There Is No Problem I Can't Fix", a deep, rolling house groove, characterised by mystical synths and hollowed out drums, while the slap bass of "Round Dax" and the low-slung groove of "Ayenward" proves again that Nocow follows an unusual approach to production.