214 - Cascadian Nights EP

Gotta totally love Andrea Parker's dogged determination to stick with releasing progressive electro even though, in her own words, most of the things she throws onto the market don't even break even for her in this current climate of dubstep overload & minimal techno. Chris Roman's 214 material is her latest squeeze & i'm not surprised her ears have been seduced! This is proper detailed, crisp & full-frontal electro funk with a thoroughly dynamic scope. With acts like Bitstream, they took the often cold mechanisms of "IDM" and shoved them through some android party shredder so it still sounded alien but you could well imagine totally losing it on a dancefloor to their disintegrating beats, dislocating rhythms & haunting synths! This guy's got that very same magic. His tunes have this superb shuddering futuristic feel - very technical & precise - but all of a sudden you'll get this amorphous synthline, like on 'Sprockets', that'll just have the hairs on!
your neck sticking up and then your spine melts. Not so many people can make electro that spills with so many progressive ideas, yet keeps the groove snaking so majestically. Ant & I are really feeling this one. Definately for fans of Nomadic, Quinoline Yellow, Bitstream & Gescom's clubbier excursions. Smart as...

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