Moiré - Circuit 8 by Acid Test / Avenue 66 published on 2022-07-19T07:43:03Z Circuit 8 from the forthcoming album Circuits on Avenue 66. Over the past decade, the mysterious, London-based artist Moiré has perfected a syrupy, addictive brand of dance music via labels like Actress's Werk Discs and illustrious imprints like Ghostly and Rush Hour. For most of this period, Moiré seemed pramarily concerned in creating alternative universe club tracks. The beats were hypnotic, if wonky. The pads were deep before they were refracted through an oblique filter. In a discography bearing a surfeit of leftfield high points, Circuits, Moiré's latest album for the Berlin-based Avenue 66 (Lowtec, John Frusciante, Joey Anderson) is a massive creative leap that fully breaks with the strictures of a "conventional" dance music. While there are still nods to the low-slung, slow house style Moiré's perfected in the past ("Circuit 1"), as well as the looming shadow of hardcore ("Circuit 8), Moiré's style now billows into a liminal, cinematic zone that recalls the canonical SAW albums, BOC or even Seefeel's enduring, genre-free experiments. Rhythms come and go at all tempos, from Hauntological four-on-the-floor to flickering downtempo and ambient house approximations. But the emphasis lies with the melodies. From the queasy orchestral style of "Circuits 1" to the glacial, "end credits"-style synths that close out the album, these motifs bear an uncanny familiarity, as though they always existed. You recognize them, not from a previous listen, but rather, some half-remembered dream, or, perhaps, a previous lifetime. A1 Circuit 1 A2 Circuit 2 A3 Circuit 15 A4 Circuit 16 B1 Circuit 4 B2 Circuit 8 B3 Circuit 7 B4 Circuit 17 Out on September 2nd 2022 https://acidtestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/circuits Comment by Fergus McQueenie x 2023-04-21T14:19:33Z Comment by Lazy Pluto 𒂼𒁂 𒄋 𒄌 𒄍 2022-07-19T17:53:40Z