Reclaim Your City 592 | Refracted

Expert pusher of intrusively mental wares and kaleidoscopic audio scenarios, Refracted has been laying the foundation to a truly solid body of work, punctuated with releases for Bitta, Polegroup and his own imprint, Mind Express. From serene, stripped-down ambiences to churning material from the deep, his blends conjure up the best of textural immersion and rhythmic out-thereness, constantly expanding the scope with every bar. Enter a world of sunken minimalism, that won’t fail to evoke Basic Channel and Moritz von Oswald’s seminal dub techno idioms, but complete with its own hypnotic appeal and highly addictive grammar.

 

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