Store Selects 006 // Wolfgang Voigt, HTRK, Khotin, Marc Leclair, Foote/Dickow, K Wata, Peach
Inverted Audio founder Tom Durston returns with the sixth instalment of Store Selects, filmed live from the record store in Peckham — a wide-ranging episode moving between ambient composition, dub techno, deep house and the foundational edges of minimal techno.
The episode opens with Marc Leclair's Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes on In Sheep's Clothing — a record that originally circulated quietly on CD via Mutek in the early 2000s and has only now received its first vinyl pressing, more than twenty years on. Connected to the Clicks and Cuts movement of the late nineties and early 2000s, the album eases in gracefully, nine pieces unfolding across 72 minutes of accumulated texture and restraint. Originally composed during the same period Leclair was reshaping minimal techno as Akufen, it exists in an entirely different register — patient, luminous, and deeply personal.
Foote/Dickow's High Cube on Geographic North is the debut collaboration between LA's Brian Foote (Peak Oil, Leech) and Portland's Paul Dickow (Strategy) — made in the same room, with a defined set of equipment, a clock running, and a shared commitment to not overthink the results. Dry, tactile and loose, the record moves between experimental techno and abstract machine funk without settling neatly into either, rhythms unfolding with a quiet narrative tension that prioritises mood over convention.
Peach's Soak Vol. 1 on Mood Hut is one of the episode's most distinctive additions — a mini-LP written after a transformative tour through Asia, the turning point coming during a visit to a neighbourhood sentō in Tokyo. Field recordings gathered in Vietnam and the Philippines thread throughout, sitting beneath the electronics like a tide that never quite recedes, grounding the music in something lived and specific.
K Wata's Give U Space on Short Span is one of the most anticipated debuts in recent memory — deep, dubwise and constructed with a delicate, architectural precision that makes it feel less like a record to be heard and more like a series of rooms to settle into. Originally shaped for live performance at Sustain Release, the material has been refined into a fluid, cohesive set, each piece built to inhabit, stripped-back frameworks etched with subtle textures and tonal detail.
Tarik Hensen's Förvandling on DeepLabs — the collaborative project of Martinou and Ben Kaczor — completes a full-circle journey: rooted in Detroit techno, travelling through Malmö, and landing in Basel, where these influences converge into a singular, immersive statement. Varp weaves hypnotic percussion and immersive ambience into a fluid, dub-infused framework; Malm channels raw warehouse energy, balancing driving momentum with textured stabs and deep, resonant atmospheres. Luke Hess closes with a considered Detroit remix of the title track.
Khotin anchors the episode's midsection with his brand new record KIND 013 on his own Khotin Industries, the New Tab cassette, Release Spirit, and both Beautiful You and Finds You Well on Ghostly International. Since debuting in 2014, Dylan Khotin-Foote has fine-tuned an impressionistic, dream-like style that straddles multiple sonic worlds, his output moving between gentle synthesized atmospherics and hypnotic, dance-minded frameworks. Taken across formats and labels, these records trace one of the most consistently affecting voices in contemporary electronic music.
HTRK's Psychic 9-5 Club provides the episode's most singular moment — thoroughly minimalist, each composition built from understated loops and Jonnine Standish's smoky vocals, dubbed out with reverb and delay into something hypnotic and mirage-like. Their first record as a duo and their debut on Ghostly International, it remains one of the decade's more quietly devastating records.
The episode closes through a sequence that maps the deeper end of the catalogue: Wolfgang Voigt's Earquake on Profan, part of his ongoing double vinyl series drawing from nearly a decade of nineties output, alongside Paperclip People's Basic Reshape on Basic Channel and two selections from Rhythm & Sound. The Pampa Records pairing of Isolée & Robag Wruhme and DJ Koze, and Galcher Lustwerk's 100% Galcher, round out an episode that moves with equal confidence between weight and warmth.
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