Polytechnic Youth Vinyl & CDs

Review: Polytechnic Youth has been on something of a release spree of late. This absorbing single from the previously low-key Adam Leonard is apparently one of three seven-inch singles the label is releasing simultaneously. Split into two equally otherworldly parts, "Entkommen" is a meditative Berlin-School composition built around spacey, elongated modular pulses, fuzzy 1970s synthesizer chords, sci-fi effects and languid, rippling organ melodies that slowly rise and fall throughout. It's undeniably "kosmiche" in nature, recalling in parts very early Tangerine Dream, Dieter Moebius and Conrad Schnitzler. It's drowsy, alien and hugely atmospheric, suggesting that Adam Leonard is not only a student of those landmark German artists, but also a very capable musician.

Review: Those sounds that are so squelchy it feels as though you're going to sink into and through the floor via the subs. Remember them? Pye Corner Audio offer a perfect example of that with the A-side to this wonderfully polished and perfected two-tracker, with 'Circuit Riot' stripping out the unnecessaries to offer a stripped back slice of low-tempo acid crying out for a trippy dancefloor.

Flip it to find quite the opposite, although the appropriately-titled 'Pocket Disco' does keep up the ethic of drawing listeners ever deeper. In this case, though, we're brought into a spiralling looped hook-dominated roller that barely lets up, combining proggy-ness with space disco in a way that's bound to win over a broad range of ears and feet.