Rest

Last year, Isole, aka German recluse Rajko Muller, released Beau Mot Plage, one of the greatest house records ever. A bizarre combination of minimal house groove, spacey electronic bleeps and Latino percussion, Beau won support from DJs of every persuasion. Now Muller faces a more daunting task, namely to release an album’s worth of pale imitations or opt for a more diverse sound. Happily, he’s chosen the latter, with the deep, melodic electro and robot voices on ‘Keep On Dancin’ and abstract yet tinny, metallic down beat house numbers like ‘Rest Encore’, ‘Tout Se Complique’ and ‘Djamel Et Jamshid’ proving that he can turn his hand to a variety of tempos. However, Muller’s work sounds best at a dancefloor pace, a tempo where his intricate percussive arrangements contain the detuned melodies, understated string arrangements and intricate signatures that mark out ‘Demon’, ‘Music’ and ‘Gallus’ in particular as future house classics. If Beau Mot Plage was a breath of fresh air, then Rest single handedly re-defines electronic music.