The Cyclist, looking a bit like someone's just nicked his bike.
This article was originally published on THUMP UK.Irish producer The Cyclist has got an unmistakable sound. He calls it 'tape throb', and you'd do well to think of a better name for it than that. He manages to take the colours and textures of techno and break-beat, only to patch them together over atmospheres that are altogether more docile and fluid. His 2013 debut LP, Bones in Motion, was an exercise in just this, and since then his work as his alter-ego Buz Ludzha has continued to carve this dark but delicate path further.
The good news? The bike is showing no signs of slowing down. His latest effort, about to be released on UK mainstay Hypercolour, is Pressing Matters. An EP's worth of taut, trippy rollers, tinged with just enough rave nostalgia to leave the silverbacks in the club teary-eyed. The original tracks are all about break-beats and pirate radio memories, but for the remixes Pressing Matters enjoys a pointedly Teutonic treatment. Robag Wruhme never disappoints, and he is on glittering form with this remix of the EP's title track. The rework is a trippy but defiantly slamming version, and we look forward to hearing it very late at night somewhere, soon. Enjoy below.Buz Ludzha's New 'Jungle Tapes' Cassette Is Intended as a "Punk 'Fuck You'"
Pressing Matters is out on the 2nd of September via Hypercolour.