Iri.gram - False 04

Immensely sharp releases number 03 and 04 from the so-far-so-great False Aralia, a newly minted label really starting to make a name for itself in the world of new experimental club sounds. No surprise that they're hot out the gate given who's pulling the strings - head honcho Brian Foote has long had his foot in such waters given his associations with Kranky and Peak Oil. While the Kranky connection is mostly a misnomer for what's on offer here, Peak Oil is at least adjacent, though the overall focus here seems to be more guided towards the dancefloor than inner-looking headphone escapism (is this a reverse Basic Channel to Chain Reaction type relationship). I've grouped these two together for the label connection, though they're certainly separate affairs. In honesty, Externalism might have turned up on Peak Oil and few would have batted an eyelid, possessed of a dreamlike haze that feels at least adjacent to the minimal ambi-techno of, say, Purelink and Topdown Dialectic. Highwater marks of course, though it's more than worthy of the associations. Iri.gram is a touch busier, splitting the difference between a permanently shifting Autechre-like restlessness and the submerged poise of that first world beating Loidis 12". Ordered a few of these based solely on the label. Kicking myself now that we didn't get more. That's four and 0 for False Aralia now
 
Note we got a small restock of both False 01 and 02 should you want to die in a bit deeper. 
 
FFO: Autechre, Loidis, Topdown Dialectic, Purelink, Chain Reaction