MORE ALIVE (EP) (180G) | 12IN VINYL

Loxodrome (Aka Jimpster), Loxodrome is the alias of UK producer Jamie Odell (aka Jimpster) for his more electronic leanings into the fault lines between nostalgia and circuitry. Rooted firmly in the underground, his Loxodrome output filters the spirit of early 90s IDM through contemporary patchwork-equal parts introspective and rhythm-driven. With a love for crunchy 808 patterns and synth-heavy emotion, Loxodrome's sound orbits the traditions of electro and machine soul without ever settling into one or the other. From the midst of patch cables and the glow of blue backlit LED screens, he returns to Cyphon with a 4-track mind-melter that leans hard into the ghostly circuits of Detroit electro and the dream logic of Warp's Artificial Intelligence era. The EP finds it's pulse in fractured grooves, modular fuzz and deeply alien melodies. 'More Alive' kicks off the release incorporating skittering percussion and a shuffled house groove whilst drifting synth swells add a sense of melancholia. Aurora Devereux delivers an otherworldly spoken word vocal which helps to anchor the track despite the fractured breaks and modular squelch's best attempts to knock things off course. Next up, 'Gobbledygook' brings a sense of controlled chaos with deconstructed speech fragments and spiraling synths bending IDM tropes into new forms. It's a heady, tongue-in-circuit ode to the glorious nonsense of machine consciousness. Flip over for 'Call Me' where ghostly whistles sing over a unrelenting four/four kick whilst tropical samples combine with vintage synths like a love letter left on a dial-up modem. Nostalgic, yes-but warped through future tense. The EP closes out with 'Rubbery Duck', a real fusion of sounds and moods with it's pulsing modular sequence bouncing off an elasticated bassline like a sentient toy in a zero-gravity rave. A curveball ender with bite! Hope you enjoy these four tracks for late-night wanderers and system riders: this is outsider dance music that remembers it's past while rewiring it's future. Tracklisting: A1. More Alive A2. Gobbledygook B1. Call Me B2. Rubbery Duck