Various Artists - OVRLPL002 (The Motorist, The Cyclist, Waxtek, Puncta, Aaron Thomas)

Label: Overload Liverpool – OVRLPL002
Format: 12", EP, Lathe Cut, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: June 8, 2024
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Downtempo, Experimental, House

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Limited to 50 units, 'OVRLPL002' is a 5-track white label compilation featuring freaked-out electro, warm house, deep dub cuts, and gorgeous ambient from The Motorist, The Cyclist, Waxtek, Puncta and Aaron Thomas.

Liverpool-based label boss Morrison highlights two of his distinct and dissociative styles. On the front end of the A-side, his The Motorist alias provides us with a freaked-out formant-filtered electro that’s bursting at the lips. On the back end, a deep yet bright house cut from his The Cyclist alias, with warm warbling synths layered over his Wurlitzer electric piano and suitably grooved and jaunty beats.

To kick off the deeper B-side of the 12”, Wax Tek, a founder of the Liverpool Soundsystem crew Polyone Audio, hits us right in the chest with his dubbed-out breakbeat wonder, Get Set, which diverges through Balearic, bass music, a delirious breakdown, and hard-hitting breakbeats.

Deeper still, the second B-side from Puncta, another Liverpool-based artist, who last year came to light with their release on Sputnik One’s N-Face, dives into the deep Arctic seas with Snow Crab, an exercise in dubbed-out electro-style bass music.

Finally, Belfast-based Aaron Thomas brings the 12” EP to a fitting closure with Concert², which, washing over the listener, dances like opulent drapes with its ethereal synths that crash to and fro.

A1. The Motorist - Necronomicon
A2. The Cyclist - Greed
B1. Waxtek - Get Set
B2. Puncta - Snow Crab
B3. Aaron Thomas - Concert (Squared)