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Review: Speak to anyone who lived through them about the glory days of IDM and German producer Arovane (aka Uwe Zahn) is probably one of the first names they will happily reel off. Between the late '90s and his apparent retirement in 2004, Zahn was responsible for birthing a clutch of classic IDM longplayers like Tides and Lillies, the 2004 LP for City Centre Offices that seemed to signal his withdrawl from music. However, the production bug bit him again in 2013 and there has been a steady stream of Arovane output leading up to this Aarlenpeers EP. Issued on the Touchin' Bass label operated by self professed Arovan fan Andrea Parker, these two cuts bristle and pulse with abstracted electronic life in a manner one expects from Zahn. "Il_Eth" is quite epic.

Review: Spread between the US, UK and Canada, the MKFN trio are basically set for world domination and their latest EP on the always on-point, Touchin' Bass is nothing but vibes. Travelling through treacherous low-ends and cavernous tech-steps, their sound is characteristic of the UK's bass tradition and fits nicely at the present end of the hardcore continuum. "Substrate" has to our favourite, simply because of those rugged, slicing half-beats. For fans of Objekt and the Hessle Audio sound.

Review: The latest missive on Andrea Parker's admirable Touchin' Bass label comes from Maria Gamboa Perez, a "guitarist, drummer, mathematician and multidisciplinary improviser" who operates under the alias NonZero!. "Matrix Equation" is moody, dark, clandestine and breathless, with Perez and collaborator Carl Finlow (yep, the British electro legend) layering buzzing electronics, looped modular noise, no wave style guitar motifs and intense melodies over a variety of clanking metallic rhythms. It's not quite industrial music, electro or EBM, but rather a fusion of the three - and dark ambient - that rewards repeated listening sessions.