Syntherapie vinyl

Frenchman Vadim Svoboda has sure achieved a lot for only around six years on the scene. With releases on a who's who of minimal house such as local imprint Eklo, Radio Slave and Jamie Fry's The Double R (who presented four parts in a row of his Patterns series) and Berlin imprint LumieresLaNuit: the proof is in the pudding really! On his second release for the latter (since 2014's Syntherapie), he serves up more dusty reductionist grooves on the all analogue and brazenly afterhours tip. All with an unrepentant salute to the sounds of Perlon like in previous work. Opening track "Emissions" is actually a pretty fierce offering from the young producer, with its tough broken beats supported by wonky and surreal modular synth textures. The flipside is where it's really at though, like on "Visions", which keeps on with the rolling and splintered rhythms as before but getting some fuzzy and bit-crushed SP1200 sounds into the mix too. Finally "Refraction" is the most hypnotic cut with its layers of entrancing bleep melodies.

Alex Font, Doo