Nightwidth

Anders Ilar doesn’t hang out in trendy clubs in Berlin, but that hasn’t stopped him from making inspirational electronic music. While the last third of Nightwidth is bathed in sublime, effervescent ambience, its heart and soul is predicated on Ilar’s love of murky, swampy basslines, fractured percussion and intricate samples. ‘Radius’ confronts the listener with an off-beat acid stomp, ‘Downhill’ combines brittle beats with trancey melodies, and the plunging, churning bass of ‘A Day Ago’ comes across like a moodier version of ‘Body Language’. Ilars’ music is too rough and unpredictable to enjoy the same success as the Get Physical release, but Nightwidth proves that the old adage still rings true: the stars are underground.