Best electronic albums of 2018: seventeen

17 – S>>D – Co Intel PRO (Central Processing Unit)

I first mentioned the ungooglable S>>D on this site back in 2011, where I described him as dragging breakbeat’s “bleeding corpse across Satan's kitchen floor”.

It’s 2018 and after all this time, he’s barely reached the sandwich toaster – remarkably, Co Intel PRO is Sean Dorris’s debut album. His sound is still as dark as I remember, sitting somewhere between early Autechre and a Boards Of Canada sent to bed without any supper.

That said, it’s superbly melodic in a grumpy Skam Records way – listen to that crunchy chord under the slo-mo scratches of VTOL or the dreamy Global Communication melodic drift of Airlock.

Apparently, the voice muttering in Airlock is a sample from the movie Westworld, Michael Crichton's mash-up of old westerns and science fiction. This is more the latter – science fiction played out by morphined androids under an all-too-blistering distant sun.



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