Album: Luke Abbott, Holkham Drones (Border Community)

Andy Gill
Friday 20 August 2010 00:00 BST
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Not all the electronic-music activity in Britain is happening just within the stylish urban parameters of dubstep.

Outside the main city centres, things are developing at their own pace. Norfolk-based Luke Abbott draws more from minimalism and krautrock than grime, the clean lines of his analogue synth constructions employing steady pulses adorned with sparse bleeps and burring textures. The understated gamelan of resonant metallic synth tones in "Trans Forest Alignment" recalls the simpler creations of Neu! and Harmonia, while the standout opener "2nd 5th Heavy" employs loops of high-pitched, guitar-like electronics cycling in and out of sync like an early Steve Reich piece shifting the effect in a warmly satisfying way that never seeks to wrong-foot the listener.

DOWNLOAD THIS 2nd 5th Heavy; Trans Forest Alignment; Soft Attacks

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