World

about this album

40-minute mini-album of minimalist Japanese house, beatdown and ambient themes from the elusive Shinichi Atobe, recorded some time over the last 20 years in Saitama, Japan, and given life by Demdike Stare's DDS imprint. The reclusive artist has seen a lot of justified and overdue praise surrounding the reissue of his sole early release, the Ship-Scope 12" which was originally issued by Berlin's Chain Reaction label in 2001 and reissued by DDS in 2015, following on from the unexpected dispatch of his distinguished and brilliant Sprinkles-esque Butterfly Effect album. His new World LP will expand your preconceptions, coursing a beautifully louche vibe from the most minimal loops and motifs - the kind that one could play all day without ever tiring of hearing them. The supple, floating DX7 bass contours and vaporous jazz chords of Intro start up like some Chicago or NYC deep house classic lost in its own reverie, and could happily go nowhere for as long as it wants, before the rainy day piano house melancholy of World 1 promptly inverts that supple aesthetic with a fizzing, hazy sort of depth perception and World 2 switches up again to a sort of trim du momentum in stepping, swinging equilibrium, riding the groove like no other. Turn over and the lingering, slowed downstroke of World 3 sounds like it got waylaid from a Oneohtrix Point Never session with Wolfgang Voigt, whilst World 4 jettisons the bass altogether to thizz and skip away in the highest registers with an intoxi

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