Recondite – Dwell

Techno and house in its rhythms but with a slow tempo and with lots of atmospheric sounds. Beautiful music, too, in a blue and moody sense.

When you put on noise cancelling headphones and listen to this in the middle of a busy city it’s like a movie about a civilization in decay and the meaninglessness of everyday life. The scene when you’re watching them run around in their little useless lives and you already know but they don’t that their fraglie mudball planet is on an all-erasing collision course with a huge asteroid. Could be a soundtrack to Melancholia.

Underworld ‎– Drift Series 1

This is a vast body of work. It reaches into every corner of the electronic music world, it’s extensive, and mostly better than just good. But as one release it’s impossible to weigh or review, it’s like labelling a producer’s full discography.