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MAR '25 Breakdata - Here We Go A regular on Power
FM and rubbing shoulders with Freddy Fresh and Dave Clarke. Gav O’Sullivan has been making waves of late. Here he’s joined forces with Takeover Recordings. Opener ‘Here We Go’ blurs the lines between breakbeat and electro, chopping up a vocal sample over some superb dark synths. ‘Autonomous Zone’ brings the hammer for some weighty peak time electro. Veteran John Braine as Trontsphore reworks the first track with a vintage minimalist focus. DC Cignol - Botnet EP Dublin electronic wizard Cignol brings an EP of spacey laidback electro brim full of atmosphere. If Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan echoes a bygone age of ’70s British concrete architecture, this is surely its space based equivalent. ‘Botnet’ evokes feelings of distance, isolation and yearning. ‘Fluid Nature’ brings vastness and weight. ‘Suspicion’ has a busier style conveying a signal that all is not as it seems. It’s phenomenally good electro. DC Lael Neale - Tell Me How To Be Here The stateside singer/songwriter is announcing her new album with this single. She tells of her return to LA after years away in rural Virginia. Struggling, she almost operates as a ghost “Its just a little lonely, without the ground below me”. The liminal taped sound hisses over her delicate chords adding to this effect. She opens her European Tour in The Workmans in May. DC Losing The Swing - Goldbug Striking out on his own, Of All Living Things bassist Danillo Ward’s debut single under the moniker Goldbug has something of the old ways in it. Losing The Swing is throbbing with melancholy. There’s a hint of Duke Special in Ward’s breathy, languid vocals, while the instrumental shows all the hallmarks of an artist who has cut their teeth in Ireland’s famous Dream Pop scene, most notably in the form of Chris W Ryan’s signature vibrato, pick scraping wail. It’s an exciting debut. EG 15