Shimmering Lights

The 12th of December is possibly leaving it late for delivering old school style acid house/ wonky techno monsters into the world but this is a time for gifts and giving and Paisley Dark are offering a brand new EP of the finest quality today- its not free, you'll have to pay for it, but its worth every penny. Ben Hunt's Shimmering Lights is deliberately nodding its head   towards classic, early 90s Underworld. The monstrous wobbling 303 bass and synapse bothering synths are one thing- the vocal sample, 'I see patterns in everything/ Everything everything', is another. Cowgirl here we come. It really kicks up and off after the midpoint, everything coming together...

Shimmering Lights comes with six remixes courtesy of Mindbender, Cosmikuro, Ben himself with label boss John Paynter, Rude Audio, Keith Forrester, and Airsine. Mindbender hits the settings marked 'sci trance'. Ben and John's Space Age Freak Out twists the original even more and adds a synth whistle. Keith Forrester strips things down for an acid techno ride. Airsine cuts the tempo for early set chug. 

The Cosmikuro remix really stood out for me, a beautifully handled trip from the a Leeds based electronic psychedelicist, found sounds taking the Shimmering Lights out into the forest, the 'everything everything' sample at the centre along with that bassline and a big old kick drum prodding onwards. Lysergic delights. The other one that I've been clicking replay on is from South London's Rude Audio remix. Rude Audio take us on a dubwise excursion in their remixes, but here Mark goes for early 90s dancefloor adverting, bringing the thump of acid house early and aiming for the lasers, the dry ice and the strobe. Rude Audio four four dub techno with timbales and 303 mayhem. Get the Shimmering Lights EP here.

Leeds to Sao Paulo is a journey of 5, 978 miles according to the internet. In Sao Paulo lives Pandit Pam Pam, a Brazilian musician/ producer who has lit up 2024 with an album, singles and remixes (by Jezebell). Earlier this week Pandit Pam Pam released his now annual Christmas single- fear not, this is no novelty Christmas song but some lovely, chilled, slightly woozy electronica. Equipe Exploratoria Papai Natal III is blissed out, southern hemisphere Four Tet and will do very nicely for winding down on a Friday night.