2MR レコード& CD

Review: 2MR is a curious label, indeed. For starters, its founders Mike Simonetti and Mike Sniper have released just about all sorts of electronic music on it. The second release by Russian artist Kedr Livanskiy is just as nutty as her debut, except that this time we have even more sound experiments to play with. Mixing up lo-fi techno through the likes of "Razrushitelniy Krug" or "Winds Of May", together with grainy shades of house on "January Sun", and even broken-down echoes of post-hardcore with "Otvechai Za Slova" the artist has managed to create a truly captivating record, and perhaps also one of the freshest and most daring pieces of music that we've heard since the turn of the new year. Warmly recommended.

Review: It's pretty clear, once 'Boy' fully drops, where the inspiration for Liminal Soul has come from. And it's certainly not the many, many liminal images on the countless Facebook groups dedicated to end-less mediocrity. Feel the shivers down your spine, transcend to a place that's at once the street outside Space in Ibiza smoking a cigarette with some random in 1998 at 5PM, and your mate's bedroom at 16, around the time the urge to get to a club became almost too much to tolerate. There's so much beauty in these tracks and so much of what we should probably now start calling old school. It's trance-tipped, heart-on-sleeve dance music that's never shy and still always chilled out enough to sit back and contemplate. Remember when this was standard? So do we, it was a great time.