Natural Selections レコード& CD

Review: Best known for his distinctive graphic design and illustration work, Bristol-based DJ/producer Deep Nalstrom (real name Guillaume De Ubeda) is finally ready to unleash his music on the world. "Naive Melodies" sees him pitch up on Nummer's Natural Selections label with an almost perfectly formed debut album. Analogue-rich, evocative and atmospheric, the seven cuts expertly blend elements of ambient, new age, dub, tropical textures, curious (sampled) spoken word vocals, intergalactic electronica and gentle tribal rhythms. Highlights include - but are no way limited to - the bass-heavy, delay-laden shuffle of "Inner Collapse", the sun-kissed warmth of "Albatros", the ambient dub haziness of "Liquid Diamonds" and the Sotofett/Fett Burger-esque "The Dream People".

Review: Berlin-based leftfield house duo Nummer has decided to launch another label, Natural Selections. To kick things off, they've secured the sixth album from hard-to-pigeonhole experimentalist Marble. It's a wonderfully fluid and otherworldly album, all told, with the storied producer variously combining elements of Jon Hassell style Fourth World ambience, waves of blissful electronics, heady tropical percussion, far-out soundscapes, pitched-down samples, near Balearic movements and humid headiness in a variety of weird and wonderful ways. The result is a set that not only demands repeat plays, but also rewards those who give it the attention it so clearly deserves.