Stand in awe for some wickedly elegant nocturnal strutting brought to you by those masters of all things dark and metallic, Dissident. In ‘Emergency Calling’ the latest release by this most excellent record label, the Off-Key Hat go starkly soulful with a majestic piece of mid-tempo synthetic swing laced with a crunchy bassline that should make the Italian crew utter an amazed ‘madonna’. The perfectly produced blend of harsh arpeggios, pumping beats and melting stream-of-conciousness vocals bring to mind the best of early-era Chicago House, I am talking Frankie Knuckles and Mr. Fingers here, top styles, nuff said.

The Off-Key Hat- Emergency Calling

And talking about arpeggio flips, here you have a tasty morsel of Minimal Wave by Graham Philip D’Ancey endowed with a lil’ bit of this and a lil’ bit of that- His 12” ‘Sacred Project‘ put out by the selfsame legendary US label is class all over, Sacred Dance is our favourite, jacking slow motion robotic glam with some native american chanting and guitar solos to boot, LSD tends not to be massively associated with minimal wave styles but that whole hyperreal overblown twin orange suns rising behind the impressions of fleeting vultures is the effect that this tune achieves, there.

Graham Philip D’Ancey- Sacred Dance