Maurizio - M4.5
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Maurizio - M4.5
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: Maurizio – M4.5
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: Germany
Released: 1995 / 2023 Repress
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Dub Techno, Minimal
The half-step between M4 and M5 in the Maurizio series is no footnote — it is a release that holds its own ground entirely. M4.5 continues the deep inquiry that Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus were conducting through the mid-1990s, pushing their minimal, dub-inflected language further into the interior without losing any of the weight or intentionality that defines the project at its best.
Both sides unfold with the same unhurried patience that makes the M-Series so enduringly compelling. Pulsing low-end anchors spacious chords and carefully placed delays that ripple outward through the mix, each subtle shift in texture and rhythm arriving exactly when it should. Where M4 feels like an opening statement, M4.5 feels like deepening commitment — proof that within extreme reduction there is still room to move, still new territory to uncover. Thirty years on, it remains essential.
