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Review: Having previously taken on trips to imaginary 'Lost Moons' and the 'Island of Being', Yaroslav Lensyak is now our tour guide through Trippy Land - an aural, club-ready soundscape that combines his love of undulating acid lines and glitchy tech-house beats with sun-splashed melodic motifs, enveloping pads and off-kilter basslines. The sonic sightseeing begins with the gorgeous-but-weighty 'Yupi', before taking in panoramic views and shuffling breakbeats on the alternately picturesque, raw and sleazy 'Flicker'. Title track 'Trippy Land' boasts motorik bleeps, jagged analogue bass and sharp TB-303 tweaks, while the excursion-ending 'Sirius' is a deep, low-slung, early morning jog that's as rhythmically driving as it is sonically mind-altering.

Review: Fantastically uplifting trance fusions from Pescara's Yu, and up-and-comer with an evidently keen ear for the sublimer conclusions inferable from the dancefloor. Debuting for Discarded Gems, a Berlin-based label whose name takes after the common musical vernacular term that refers to lost tracks as 'gems', you can be sure that this riveting new release is at once subtly but drastically boundary-pushing, seeing value not only in the pearls, tanzanites and garnets of the world, but also the unpolished quartzes and agates. Working backwards (why not?), 'Tropical LED' brings electrance and Italo flavours to a techno form, as speak n' spell samples scuttle across the toppers; then there's the raunchier, industrial rock-intoned 'Robotik Hunter' and the unabashedly trancey breaks cut 'Another Destination', which comes second only to the cascading acid trance roller that is 'Beautiful Moment'. They all are, really.