Dmitry Distant

Review: Helena Hauff's label is back, this time presenting a various artists 12" that heralds the start of the No Return series. The release starts on a mystical bent with the Eastern-tinged death electro of "El Carmel", sounding ripe for a Hague-friendly warm-up session. Neud Photo then take over with a dystopian trip through rich synth tones coloured in dark hues for the bleakest of robotic fantasies. Antoni Maiovvi fills the B-side with the slow grinding bombast of "The Dig", bleeding out a noirish take on coldwave for the darkest hearts to swoon to.

Review: Snuff Trax sub-label In The Dark Again is, by all accounts, up to their tricks... again! This time, however, they've managed to pull together a few new artists to their roster, Latvian underground sensation Igors Vorobjovs and Bass Agenda's Dmitry Distant. Igor opens the A-side with the grainy, distorted quasi-electro of "Reloading", followed by the comparatively cleaner and more suave bumps of "Broken Synthesizer". Distant's "Deviation" is a breath of fresh air by comparison, coming through with a much cooler strain of deep-minded electro, before Vorobjovs tears down the house once more with "The Future Was Here" and "Free Your Mind"; "Multiple Allelism" by Dmitry Distant makes for the perfect closing tune thanks to a starry landscape of synths and aqueous beats.