D LERIA Vinyl & CDs

Review: This fresh tech platter from Fur:ther Sessions came with a note in Latin, "Vivendum Est Ut Ea Libertate Utamur, Quae Prosit Amicis, Noceat Nemini" which translates as 'We Must Live To Enjoy The Freedom That Can Benefit Our Friends And Harm No One.' It's a great mantra, and these are great tunes that will help you do that. ORBE brings mind-melting and dubby depths with 'Delta', D-Leria's 'Fortepiano' is another sub-aquatic deep techno roller and Magna Pia then gets more edgy and intense with unsettling synth lines and a groaning bassline. Hakan Cepni closes down with another elastic and loopy techno hypnotiser in the form of 'Celestial Pulse.'

Review: The seventh V/A release on Mary Yuzovskaya's Monday Off imprint lands on vinyl, with Viels, ORBE, D-Leria, and Yuzovskaya all contributing tracks. Each artist lending their tender efforts to a mutant techno march, Viels' 'Nero' and Orbe's 'Rigging' provide strong titular clues as to their muses; the first uses both the Latin word for "black" and the name of an ancient Roman emperor, suggesting might, militancy and nyctalopic mis-seeing in its dispatch of a blind sonic firestorm; the latter likens production to construction, with its central, low-sined wayfinder sound effect, and dusty hi-hat caroms, suggesting some vessels have windshields that truly can brave the storm. Yuzovskaya's 'Trouble' lands us in hot water, with its startled, far-off vocal snippets and knockout prattles in the left and right lobes; then there's B-leria's closer 'Battito', a living, breathing planetary entity, prone to emit eerily harmonic Close Encounters-style tones and whose atmosphere we dare not cross.