Yard One - Munte [Tact Recordings]

premiere: Yard One - Munte [Tact Recordings] @yard-one-music return
to @tact-recordings late July with the four-track ‘Neuroglow’ EP,
showcasing the duo’s take on hypnotic house and techno. Over the
past decade Jordan Bruce and Larry Jones aka Yard One have been
etching their mark into contemporary electronic music, releasing
material on the likes of Philipp Priebe’s Stólar, Tokyo’s Sound Of
Vast, Cinthie’s Collective Cuts, Malin Genie’s Vigenère, Apparel
Music’s Tronic sub-label, Yama Music and of course the co-founded
alongside Fletcher, Tactics and Tact Recordings where they return
here. Opening the EP is ‘Munte’ a tribal tinged jam fuelled by
organic drums, twitchy percussive elements, oscillating subs, airy
chord sequences, dubbed out swells and arpeggio acid-laced bass
flutters. ‘Dazed’ follows next and leans into the duo’s deeper side
courtesy of swirling textural elements, jazzy, delayed piano lines
and a heavily swung rhythm section. ‘Synapse’ follows next,
exploring the pairs love for the deeper end of the Techno spectrum
as billowing atmospherics, cinematic strings and sporadic bass
notes ebb and flow atop a robust drum groove. ‘Orexis’ then
concludes the EP, embracing a more microhouse aesthetic with a
focus on intricately intertwined, shuffled percussion while breathy
pads, rumbling low end pulsations and murky echoes further fuel the
subtly shifting loop-led vibe.