Contact vinyl

Ostgut Ton are slowly introducing fledging producer Kobosil to the family, which began with a commissioned remix of Barker & Baumecker's "Silo", taken from last year's hailed Transsektoral LP. Kobosil now joins The Black Dog and Manhooker to release on Ostgut Ton sub-label Unterton in 2013 with the hangman titled - ----- EP (his previous EPs for an unknown label were equally unequivocal, titled, ------- and ------ respectively). It's easy to imagine that this four track EP is influenced by long sessions at Berghain, with "Contact" burrowing deeper and more distorted by the bar, while "Aggregate" draws similarities to Ben Klock's melodic Compression Session EP. On the B-side is the gruelling synth gurgle of "Osmium", and although it's the tracks focal point, rapid fire snares of seething white noise are what give the track its fierceness. The final track on - -----, "Herschel", is sparse, deep in dub and rhythmically slow, but serves the DJ with all of their BPM needs. Kobosil may well have proved himself by providing Ostgut Ton's finest release of the year.

Ben Sims, Brian James, Dave Miller, Samo DJ, Resident Advisor, Sev Dah