12th Isle revisit the various artist compilation format first explored with 2019’s ‘Inkosi’ and assemble a veritable mixtape of sorts unfolding across six tracks aimed with the most psychedelic environments in mind. Echo Party get things started with a dub heavy, studio alchemy exercise in discipline that appears in an extended mix to the original form on Murray Collier (Dip Friso) & Hannan Jones’s self-released CD-R. Italian newcomer Guizzi features with a thunderous downtempo excursion with tight conga percussion in a DK/RAMZi vein that feels very at home on the label. Der Opium Queen pulls off a propulsive, video game OST style dancefloor hit that brings to mind that Les Aeroplanes project on Jamal Moss’s Mathematics label from way back when whilst on the Side B a freak-folk skit from Memotone sits next to heads-down motorik from Lo Kindre and a bleep-infused dub techno piece by Toronto via Bangladesh real one Raf Reza.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Echo Party - Peeeeel
A2. Guizzi - Conga Cave
A3. Der Opium Queen - Extra Wet
B1. Memotone - Only So Young
B2. Lo Kindre - Igreja
B3. Raf Reza - Dubfoot