DJ Trystero - Cantor’s Paradise

Nicely abstruse return from Japanese producer DJ Trystero, who’s already usually highly cerebral club sound mutates into something fully other transmitted deep from the left-brain. Each of these nine tracks are untitled, which mostly speaks to the amorphous quality of the production, equally dubbed-out, glassy and abstract. Truly these are tracks you can't quite lay a full hand on and positions Cantor's Paradise as a clear turn inwards towards Trystero's more introspective, contemplative impulses, I think not unlike the smart-headed calibrations of early Raster-Noton. More so, it's not often that we talk about new electronic sounds at the moment without reference to Basic Channel/Chain Reaction, and while those influences aren't entirely absent here (see centre piece track 'Untitled 6'), they're certainly a good deal more refracted and evolved - IDubM, if you like, more focused on the textural than the structural. As such, Cantor's Paradise stands out for its off-centre, intellectual choices, while still retaining some of the addictive oddness that characterised the still-mega Incienso-released Castillo LP from 2023, and certainly makes a case for its creator as one of the more fwd-thinking producers out there right now.
 
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