28 Feb 2012 — Henning Lahmann
Bristol-based electronic experimentalist Nick Edwards aka
Ekoplekz has made some of the most intriguing, intricate, and genuinely interesting music in recent years, with last year's efforts
Memowrekz on
Mordant Music and the
Westerleigh Works EP on
Perc Trax being among the most exciting stuff heard in 2011. It's only February and Edwards is already back with a stellar new EP on our favorite new label, London's
Public Information.
Dromilly Vale is probably his finest stuff so far, comprising five deeply compelling explorations into the history of electronic music, including a BBC Radiophonic Workshop reverence, dub musings, and delicate meanderings of white noise.
Today, the label sent out a newsletter that included two bonus tracks which cannot be found on the 12 inch, a dub-version of "Dick Mills Blues" from the EP and "Rotamation", a fabulous, strangely techno-leaning six minute jam that is highly accessible despite all its noise intrusions and rhythmic disruptions. A superb transmission that might serve as the perfect introduction to the universe of this inimitably imaginative mind.
Dromilly Vale is out now. Get it
here, limited to 300 copies.
Ekoplekz - Rotamation
Below, listen to some excerpts from the EP:
