OID / Friends Of Paradox / Lo Recordings

Lo Recordings’ latest release explores the archives of Russian musician OID. The label have cherry-picked 7 shorter and 3 longer tracks that span 25 years of music making. Their choices touching on a variety of electronica sub-genres, while still demonstrating OID’s signature sound. “Ambite”, for example, is a cloud of warm, swirling vapour, while the music box ballerina melody of “Casket” moves to delicate, intricate, whizzing, and whirring IDM beats. “i-ph jz” mixes Morse Code signals with tumbling, swinging, jazz syncopation. “Fwell” is groovy, shuffling, whispered pop. “Sund Outlife” acts as a laidback, introspective sunset / sunrise moment. “One One One Conspiracy”, too, is a calming concoction. In this case, combining busy but gentle programmed gamelan patterns with soft, synthetic sighs. “Stoexp”, however, has its sights on the dance floor. A fidgeting house / footwork hybrid, dense with dubbed-out textures. “Prequel Of Permanent Departure” is also tail feather shaking techno,…