Albums
August: 18 albums you need to hear this month
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Alejandro Mosso 'Isolation Music'
Third Ear Recordings has always been a dancefloor-focused label, but it also tends to operate a few steps to the left of standard dance genres. It’s a perfect fit, then, for this new album from Argentinian producer Mosso (his first in 12 years). Mosso has released on techno labels such as Cocoon, and a couple of the more predictable tracks here could still fit there – but most of the time his grooves are much more about loose, complex percussion than regular kicks and hi-hats. They unfold dreamily around drones and melodies, taking their own sweet time to get to dancefloor bliss. And, impressively, remixes from Ricardo Villalobos and Burnt Friedman only add to the album’s coherent atmosphere. Joe Muggs
7/10
