My King Is Light Germany Vinyl & CDs

Review: Amazing, goblin-mode minimal techno from Klon Dump aka. Mark Klon, a human klondike of fidgety sonics and jokey tech house from Australia. It's as if divine powers intended for Klon to join My King Is Light, the label owned and operated by fellow producer Melchior Productions. MKIL focus is on extra-special minimal tech, shunning the genre's often unfortunate capitulation to floor-perfunctoriness for the sake of idiosyncratic indulgences of the artistic kind, the kind we minimal fans actually want to hear. Praise individuality, for it is not lost! 'The Long 2016' harks back to the year in which humanity stood at the precipice of everything-everywhere-all-at-once-ness; endless shuffles, pops, bass slaps and overhand riffles burble from this track like a volatile electro-ball, evoking the informatic ease of the time. 'Go Wahreit' contrasts with harsh alien vocodes and kitchenware percs, and titularly plays on the German word for "kernel of truth". The B-siders render the record weirder and weirder, 'Blind Tim' summoning UK flavours with a skweeeing swing, and 'It's Only My Body' serving to desensitise the trance.

Review: Melchior Productions has long since perfected the stripped down tech and minimal sound but no matter how many times he does it we still can't get enough. Now back on his own My King Is Light label he has us immediately locked in with 'Feeling', which is loopy and seductive, trippy in a subtle sense and all about the smooth interaction of drums and swirling pads. 'Sentinel Enigma' then gets more weird with its flappy drums and hits, spoken word samples and wispy cosmic pads all dragon you into a dreamy late night world of psychedelic charm.