Lonewolf Vinyl & CDs

Review: Based in the UK, Timothy J Fairplay has long dwelled in the murkier corners of dance music — his work shaped by EBM, industrial, electro, and the long shadow of post-punk. A sometime collaborator with Andrew Weatherall and a fixture of the darker fringes, he returns with a new four-tracker that leans into slow-motion propulsion and paranoid atmosphere. ‘Home Visitor’ opens with a creeping unease, its syncopated kick and glassy pads suggesting something between a horror OST and a strobelit basement. ‘Melt The Chains’ is denser, grubbier — all scorched textures and pummelling snares — while ‘Runs Every 15 Minutes’ stalks forward like clockwork, driven by squelching synths and faintly psychedelic drum programming. Belgian producer DC Salas closes the set with a remix that lifts the original out of the gloom and into something more fluid and cosmic, adding a taut groove while preserving its hallucinatory core. As with much of Fairplay’s catalogue, this isn’t club music in the conventional sense — it’s nocturnal, suggestive, and oddly transportive, like a lost radio transmission from the underworld.

Review: London's Lonewolf are an unstoppable machine, unerring in their ability to output solo artists' EPs while juggling outputting huger year-end compilations. This latest from Suicide Aftr 7 is a higher-calibre acid techno stirrer, doing a rather sophisticated justice to the otherwise broad aesthetic that is "eerie atmospheres and mystic soundscapes". 'Double Speak' pairs naive vocals with strobing lead lines, while 'Tomorrow's Past' darkens the proceedings by way of descendingly gothic minor tones, before 'Rubber Lover' flattens the mood through classic Chi-claps and breathy vocals.