Description
Since its first outing in 2004, Matthew Dear’s AUDION guise has predominantly acted as a darker, edgier commentary to the pop-infused house concoctions to be found under the producer’s birth name. A twisted reflection of sorts, it contemplated electronic music through the lens of grime-flecked techno and sinewy funk – resulting in relentless floor-fillers like the aptly named “Kisses”, “Just Fucking” or “Mouth To Mouth”. Compared to the itchy momentum and carnal damp of these freak classics, the sophisticated elegance of new offering DEM HOWL is rather unexpected: chaperoned by the emotionally charged timbre of TROELS ABRAHAMSEN’s vocals – first introduced to Kompakt’s vocabulary via Kölsch’s “All That Matters” -, this cut steers away from the battle-scarred body music of yore and towards the more introspective moments on the dance floor – without sacrificing one iota of the precisely engineered groove machinery that is Audion.
