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S Olbricht 'ZZM' (UIQ)
Hungarian producer Stephan Olbricht has only been putting out records since 2010, but he’s got loads of them (it probably helps when you run your own record label, as he does with Farbwechsel). Him releasing on Lee Gamble’s UIQ imprint makes perfect sense: they both approach making techno in interesting ways, and they have a fondness for hazy sounds. As such, ‘ZZM’ has a narcotic lushness to it, the kind of fuzz that can induce ASMR or sound-induced pleasure or relaxation. The progression of the EP’s four tracks seems to highlight that: at first, it’s just a top layer on a heady banger, but as each successive track gets slower, culminating in the ambient drift of final track ‘Floa1’, the fuzz’s importance gets amplified (although, if we’re talking about the song’s ambient drift, we should probably also mention that it floats right into a poundng beat that races along at 130bpm).
8/10
