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01. Stephen Lopkin - Welcome To Nowhere
02. Stephen Lopkin - Matrix 1000
03. Stephen Lopkin - New Euro Politique
04. Stephen Lopkin - Fridays At Pure
05. Stephen Lopkin - Clyde Built
06. Stephen Lopkin - Qinosen
07. Stephen Lopkin - Decades
08. Stephen Lopkin - White Corries
09. Stephen Lopkin - Fragments Of Yesteryear
10. Stephen Lopkin - Stupid Humans
ARTIST
TITLE
Clyde Built
FORMAT
2x12"

LABEL
CATALOG #
MOSDEEP 030EP MOSDEEP 030EP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/10/2018

Stephen Lopkin now steps up to M>O>S with a 2x12" release entitled Clyde Built, recorded in his home town Thornliebank. The Scottish artist has been making prickly house and techno for almost a decade. His style is serene and slick, and across the ten tracks here he manages to conjure tracks that work in the club but that come with plenty of cerebral qualities. He never made it a secret that he takes a lot of influence from early Detroit techno, even several track titles pay direct homage to his musical heroes like Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Carl Craig, and also the track "New Euro Politique" is made in memory of the late UK producer Matt Cogger, aka Neuropolitique. "Welcome To Nowhere" kicks thing off with languid house grooves and jittery percussion, "Matrix 1000" is awash with swirling pads and astral grooves and "New Euro Politique" is a blizzard of kicks, panning percussion, and arpeggiated synths that glows bright. There are darker, driving cuts like "Fridays At Pure", trippy offerings like the title track and more thoughtful and pensive jams such as "Qinosen". The final three tracks are busy, electrifying pieces that fire every synapse with their sci-fi fx, crisp drums, and cinematic atmospheres. The whole album is wrapped up in majestic synth work and every track reveals more layers with each listen. Offering a sublimely complex house and techno sound, these tracks look back to go forwards and do so with a real timelessness.