After establishing their Indigo Aera label over the last seven years, Amsterdam figures Jasper Wolff & Maarten Mittendorff now step up onto Delsin with a four track debut EP which includes a remix from the legendary Sterac.
Jasper Wolff & Maarten Mittendorff are long time players on the Amsterdam scene as residents at De School, esteemed label bosses who have put out music by the likes of Kirk Degiorgio, Stephen Brown and Louis Haiman, and as producers with a richly atmospheric dub techno sound. When Steve Rachmad aka Sterac heard these tracks he liked them so much he asked to help with the mix down, and also provided a dub version of the title track. It completes a package of deep and artful techno that is laced with beautiful ambience.
Opener ‘Tesseract’ is a perfect example of that: one the course of ten minutes it evolves from an ambient piece of gently evolving keys into a driving dub techno cut that will work as a perfect set opener. ‘Astrava’ is a piece astral techno with solar winds and cosmic energy swirling round a broken beat pattern, and ‘Hyperion’ gets a little trippy with edgy synth riffs rippling above techno drums which are filled with suspense and tension. The Sterac dub then reworks ‘Tesseract’ into a cerebral piece of cavernous techno that is hunched and on its toes as the synths twists and turn to bring real scale. Each piece here is as mindful as it is physical, making this a special EP overall.
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released March 22, 2018
Music by Jasper Wolff & Maarten Mittendorff
Artwork by Boris Tellegen
Mixdown together with Steve Rachmad
Mastering by Marco Spaventi
The two maestros superpose their virtuosity in two tracks, combining the enchanting-provoking effect the first artist is efficient at designing, and the dub techno expertise of the second artist. As a result, it's at the same time deep and massive. Hypnotic Techno Circle