Alessandro Crimi - Moonward EPFormat : 12" Label : Stately Records Catalog # : STLR003 Genre : Techno Another strong collaboration for Stately Records as they celebrate their third release, together with Swiss Dub Techno wizard Alessandro Crimi. Already producing music for over 20 years from his headquarters in Baden, Switzerland Alessandro is playing a big part in the development of the beautiful sound of Dub Techno. Besides his own productions he is the founder of the label

percussions and an interlocking kalimba line

and postmodern “magic realism”

Fernando Cabrera

and most importantly

four days a week in the studio

If this stuff is your bag

Recorded with Parisian musicians

while the playing and singing are quite basic

‘Triperie’ is more menacing and stripped back – a paranoid lead synth roams about the mix as the crisp drums rise and fall in a fashion that will get floors marching late into the night

To tell the story of those journeys that took him from Asia to Africa

with deep set drums being served under a gorgeous repeating chordal arrangement

everyday observations of joy (‘Guri’)