Daro Holland レコード& CD

Review: Dutch label Daro carried a release from Can Oral's Khan alias back in 2021, and now they've tapped up the veteran techno legend for another suite of high-quality minimal techno from a true original. This isn't the kind of tepid, uninspired after party fodder you can find in most places - Oral's experience speaks through his machines and we get treated to a wayward kind of club music that bursts with personality. 'My House' is tough as hell and just as freaky, dealing in tightly clipped stabs which come on like SND making actual party music. 'In Waves' by contrast is a gloopy, bong bath of an ambient techno piece, while 'The Demonic Screen' flips the script once again with fragmented, stop-start beats working according to an unusual internal logic. 'Turkish Camp' completes the picture with a squashed and grubby transmission from the underworld, with more than enough low-end heft to keep a late night crowd locked on.

Review: Orli is back with what we think is a first EP in almost a year but it was worth the wait for minimal fans: the three originals on Scandal for the Daro label all hit a perfect sweet spot between abstraction and club clout. 'Where Is Your Identity' layers up bleeping phone tones and spoken word snippets with crisp and snappy tech house drums. 'Scandal' is deep, loopy and long legged though packed with subtle cosmic details and then comes a deft minimal rework from Dan Andrei's Diminished Horror remix. Last of all is 'Hole Black' which rocks back and forth on its heels with jazzy hi hats and twanging bass.