Limbic

Afterhours. continues its quest for exquisitely crafted minimal dance music and welcomes young talent Aron for its seventh release. Limbic features three original dancefloor cuts and a groove-focused remix by Arno, Pressure Trax’s head honcho. The Limbic EP starts with Prawn Repetitions (A1), immediately locking the listener into a seemingly endless loop of stomping sub-bass, slippery drums, snipped chords and a mantra-like vocal stating I’m a Shrimp just enough times to hypnotize. Inverse Perspective (A2) strips down the sonic space to focus on micro macro rhythms, leaving just enough room for its haunting atmospheric pads to cut through. The track title Limbic (B1) is as wacky as it is catchy. Its sound design feels alien, not only in its wobbliness but also in the type of vocal snippets used and overall aesthetic graininess; yet, it remains highly stomping and dancefloor appropriate, with its second part elevated, and humanized, by (very) human melodies. Arno’s Remix of Limbic (B2) deconstructs its every element, grounding the alien elements into a groove-centered, drum-machine-driven composition that embraces the harmonious aspects of the original without ever losing pace on its (very) insistent bass pattern. Between the acoustic and the electronic, the four-by-fours and the breakbeat, Aron’s tracks are as trippy as they are soulful: dense and detailed tracks with enough forward momentum to keep any room moving.