Aurelien
Riviere's work as Doubtingthomas has been a staple of the tech-house
stronghold since the late 00s, and he is often cited as a name which
brought zest and freedom to the genre, unlike many of his more
loop-minded contemporaries. He returns to Eastenderz with a tactile
three-tracker, headlined by "Dem Unbekannten", a bleepy technoid bullet
which evolves ever so gently into an endlessly hypnotic tunnel of
atmospherics. "Bastide" is similarly shape-shifting, except the
execution is more mechanical and dub-minded, whereas swarm heads deep
into the minimal whirlpool. Effective tools for the open-minded
tech-head.