Anguilla Electrica

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20 years since they peaked out with a seminal, eponymous techno album, Thomas Köner and Andy Mellwig's Porter Ricks return with a super robust, dynamic new LP of hydro-tech mutations for Tresor, following up the gritty example set on last year's Shadow Boat 12". Tough but deep whatever way you view it, Anguilla Electrica revolves around a signature Tresor sound in effect, toiling well into the trench between aerobic proprioception and psychoacoustic sound design with an immersive, sensational impact that's just as bracing on headphones as when felt over a big rig. Its six cuts are optimised to a pair of LP', giving nuff room for the likes of their scowling, skudgy title track and the distended, subaquatic stepper Scuba Rondo to fully flex their thrilling dynamics over a side-a-piece, while elsewhere they perfectly reprise the elemental psychedelia of their early releases with the pendulous swang of Shoal Beat and the sloshing skanker, Port of Tangency. But if we're talking about techno psychedelia in terms of amorphous dexterity and elusivene, then the most impressive examples are reserved to the breathtakingly intricate flux of Sandy Ground, and no doubt the near-weightle, water-treading abstraction and unquantised polymetrics of Prismatic Error. .

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