Ex machina

It’s been seven years since Aril Brikha released his debut album, Deeparture In Time, which is still one of the definitive deep techno works. In the intervening period, it sounds like he has got his groove on: while the ebm tribute track, ‘Kind Of Nitzer’ and his attempt at nouveau trance on the shudderingly cheesy title track are best forgotten, his ability to combine windswept chords with intricate percussion and acid pulses – check ‘Last One’ and ‘Gres’ – will endear him to the new minimal generation. Techno purists who loved ‘Deeparture’ will be horrified, but everyone else will be too busy dancing to care.