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July: 18 albums you need to hear this month

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  • Mixmag Crew
  • 30 June 2017
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Nick Höppner 'Work' (Ostgut Ton)

The two years since his debut LP have clearly served Berlin mainstay Nick Höppner well. While that first album, ‘Folk’, was far from a bog-standard affair, it sometimes felt different for different’s sake. But follow-up ‘Work’ is much more the sound of a producer who has mastered all his machines and can speak fluidly through them. He shows a new breadth and depth of sound that takes in skittish, celestial house, gooey, mid-tempo minimal and loose broken beat, betraying the producer’s fondness for UK garage and bass music. There are even avant-pop moments of translucent synth joy next to darker no wave hymns, all of which help make ‘Work’ much more than your average electronic album. Kristan J Caryl

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