JASPER WOLFF 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Founded in 2014 by Dutch techno stalwarts Jasper Wolff and Maarten Mittendorf, AEX are at the top of their game when it comes to sourcing quality experimental techno, having already spent plenty time and effort on former efforts like Indigo Aera. Focusing on V/A compilations has helped them maintain constant freshness, and this whopping sixteenth edition to the series is no exception to that rule. Bowler-overs like Ivano Tetelepta's '20+20' collide neatly with tricky clackers like Malin's 'Trummer Dub', while the B-side is taken up by the label's founders on some dubbier excursions.

Review: Though we cannot dance, the aeX label insists they must continue supporting artists by releasing their music, and continue to explore the outer edges of the dance floor while they do so. This time out the team has called upon beats from nine different producers, making this their broadest comp yet. Warsaw-based duo Private Press are veterans of the label having done solo EPs here before and they kick off with the raucous and bouncy cosmic techno pumper 'Beardman Driven'. It sets a fine tone for a collection of always interesting techno that goes from deep to peak and back again.

Review: Dutch producers Jasper Wolff and Maarten Mittendorff have been studio buddies for the best part of a decade. To date, the majority of their joint material has been released on the Indigo Aera label they launched seven years ago, so this first outing on Delsin is something of a surprise. Predictably, it's also really good. Opener "Tesseract", a sparkling chunk of melodious techno brilliance that benefits greatly from an extended ambient intro and almost Reichian waves of electronic motifs, is arguably the standout cut, though Sterac's hypnotic, slowly-shifting remix of the same track is also sublime. Elsewhere, "Hyperion" is a skittish slab of fizzing techno deepness, while "Astrava" is a broken techno shuffler complete with bleeping deep space melodies and dub-wise effects.

Review: The eagle-eyed amongst you may notice that the four cuts showcased here made up the first 12" of Indigo Aera's recent Lost Archives Special box-set. Like most of the rest of that expansive package, these tracks are exclusive and previously unreleased. The quality threshold is undeniably high: check, for example, the glistening, beat-less ambient positivity of Yamaoka's "Dragon Robe", and the glacial melodiousness of Skudge's rolling techno shuffler, "November". Those looking for a darker, slightly more intense take on techno should head for Museum's throbbing "RA", while label co-founder Jasper Wolff's "Float" is a study in classic, dub-influenced techno hypnotism.