Lisening To The Voices Inside

Oliver Ho is usually perceived as a hard as nails minimal techno producer, a soundtrack provider to those scary clubs full of men with their tops off and no females. Happily, his second album looks set to smash this misleading perception.

While his debut long player, Sentience may have followed a deep, minimal groove, Voices points to a whole new dimension in Ho’s productions.

With a drop in bpms and a dense layering of tribal, organic, at times African sounding percussion, the Ealing producer uses snatches of vocals, dark jazz sounds – on the particularly haunting ‘Moonlight’ – and funk and even disco sensibilities to shape an addictively funky techno selection. Ho even ropes in a live percussionist for the trance-inducing ‘In The Centre Of Paradise’.

Techno may be the most electronic of all dance music styles, but Oliver Ho has gone organic and, in the process made one of the best dance floor albums you’ll hear this year.