After the compilation celebrating Electric Appliances‘ first year, the Berlin-based label brings us the first EP of the year. In a format widely used by the label since its inception, the Octo EP is a shared release by the usual suspects.
Opening the fire is Zion 3142, a textbook Electro track, with very eighties flavours and analogue torrents by DJ, producer and part of Perce Recordings Joal. The Berlin-based Portuguese executes a perfect Electro realization with cosmic melodies with neurosurgeon precision.
The Joal track is the perfect introduction to the EP, which continues with one of Detroit Electro’s best performers, Tim Sean-Lee. We at 1051 Magazine have already had him on our virtual pages, born in Heidelberg and having worked in the booths of the United States before returning to his native country and settling in Berlin. Tim delivers Raw Cutz, with a fast tempo and classic beat, which is soon altered by a pattern that twists and turns to give the track originality.
To close, who better than Freestyle Man aka Sasse aka Klas-Henrik Lindblad, one of the main culprits behind the label’s existence. In an exercise of stylistic chameleonism, Freestyle Man begins Gemstone Dandy with compressed and filtered drums that give the track immediate personality. The melodic pattern comes and goes, until it settles and the development marks the electro space trip.
The first new material from Electric Appliances in their second year seems to indicate that the initiative is in excellent health. Congratulations to the culprits.
On sale March 4th, pre order available now here
