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December: 18 albums you need to hear this month

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  • MIxmag Crew
  • 2 December 2016
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Daniel Avery 'DJ-Kicks' (!K7)

The DJ-Kicks series has had some killer installments recently – notably from Moodymann and Dâm-Funk, who mixed up the tempos and styles. Avery’s mix, in contrast, is a very uniform thing. Bar some bleak and beautiful ambient topping and tailing, it’s basically a set of austere Berlin-style techno. Ironically, it has far more drones than Avery’s own ‘Drone Logic’ album – there are none of the big, electro-influenced riffs of that record, just slowly evolving tones and percussion rattles over a never-ending kickdrum. This isn’t going to win over any newcomers but, when you tune in to its ebbing and flowing intensities, it can be totally transporting. Joe Muggs

7/10

 
 
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