The Guardian
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(Warp)
The Italian producer charges the euphoria of dancefloor anticipation with punk spirit in these joyous, poignant tracks
‘Where’s the drop?” This was a complaint often howled at festivals or in YouTube comment sections during the EDM years (usually by a hench guy in a vest), when mainstream dance was all about extreme peaks and troughs. They would get annoyed if a track just simmered without delivering a thunderous pay-off, accompanied by a blast of confetti, which in turn was annoying, because for many people the simmering – the coiling tension as a track builds or is allowed to just be – is the best bit.
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Thu Apr 23 11:00:12 GMT 2020