Macadam Mambo Vinyl & CDs

Review: Pieter Kock shows us how it's done with The End II, a fantastic new experimental beats LP manifested on the Macadam Mambo label, in a move that has been described as "quite unexpected". A doyen of post-10s German kraut-tronics, Kock first found his savvy as a releaser of retrofutural cassette tapes for various outlets - the likes of RIO, Meakusma and Moonwalk X - all of which assumed album form (to date, Kock has not released a single single or EP). Macadam Mambo offer a suggestion as to why this is: "all the demos that he sent were so good that there was no question about doing something." If by "doing something" you mean releasing over 16 strident club-churners in the style of far leftfield dub, synthpunk and krauty Krankenschaften, you've made no mistake. Dive into any one of these exotic exo-treats, and your eyes will just as surely turn helical.

Review: France's Macadam Mambo welcomes the ambient, minimalist progressions of Poperttelli to front their discog. Disjointed Dreams explores the concept of dreaming, dream analysis and dream travelling, bringing Krauty electronic workouts and modular hypnoses to an ultimately playful but also entrancing palette. Our highlights have to be the beatless murmurer 'Ukrussian' and the dubby rainmaking cascader 'Simplifie', which avow Poperttelli's apparent knowledge of and ability to work in a range of different styles and vibes.