Mateis E. Aqir - Geography of Nowhere (2018)

Mateis E Aqir made his debut last year via a limited-edition cassette that joined the dots between classic krautrock sounds and contemporary experimental electronics. On this debut vinyl excursion, the producer changes tack slightly, serving up a simmering, six-track affair that sashays attractively been shuffling, ultra-deep house (“Chrimbo Ra”), woozy dancefloor hypnotism (“You Have To Live”), electro-influenced ambient house (“Ever Fruit”), bubbly dreaminess (“Turaco Crystalls”) and hard-to-pigeonhole electronic soundscapes (“Keinguao” and the hallucinogenic tropical brilliance of closer “Dreamy Prophet”, which contains reverb-laden steel guitar motifs amongst its many attractions). As first EPs go, it’s pretty darn good.