RDMA 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Vinyl-only imprint Appian Sounds - jointly run from bases in East London and Dublin - is fast becoming a reliable source of extra-special deep house. This latest split EP, featuring tracks from a trio of rising talents, is another must-have release. Newcomer Jock Burton impresses with "Dolmen", a chunk of loose and spacey deep house that wouldn't sound out of place on Mood Hut or M/O/S Deep (check also Slowburn's remix, which adds a bleep style sub bassline and tools up the percussion). RDMA's "Syeeda" is ultra-deep and heavily electronic - the kind of track you want to both dance to and immense yourself in while horizontal - while Route 8's "Hemitropy" is a pleasingly dusty trip into yearning, half-remembered deep house

Review: Back once again on Hungary's singular Tape Hiss imprint, RDMA cuts a mysterious figure as per usual and, of course, bashes out some puristic techno waves like few others at the moment. Driven by a rugged and wholesome techno sound that owes much to the Detroit school of thought, tunes like "Passion Dance" and "To A Wild Rose, which dominate the EP's A-side, bounce and pounce with a forward mentality; the sound is dubby and dark, the only mission being to get people up and nodding their heads the blistering 4/4 showers. There's three more bangers on the flip, from the watery and disparate paths of "Blue In Green", to the minimal flex of "Arboretum", and the mechanical movements of "Arise & Shine". If you like you're techno raw and unfiltered, then you've hit the jackpot.