Mokira - Skaka Hund Skaka - Self Sweden

Do you know what genre this is? Do you know who's going to play this record? Do you know at what time in which club? If you knew, would it sound any different? Would it make you feel any different? Here's a thought: What if this release was made just for you? What if you realize, as you put the needle to the groove, that this is YOUR music? You can share it with your friends, and strangers will talk about it like it was theirs, but deep inside you'll know: this was made for yourself.

Swedish man of many aliases Andreas Tilliander has forged a successful career from joining the dots between atmospheric techno, experimental electronica, and the distorted, hypnotic textures of a drone. Here he dons the now-familiar Mokira pseudonym - responsible for a string of albums since 2000 - for a typically drowsy, clandestine trip into dancefloor territory. All three tracks here meld glitchy, minimal-influenced rhythms with the hard-edged, droning textures of what sounds like modular synthesizers. This is music to dance to, of course - particularly the trippy, acid inspired hypnotism of "Hund Skaka Hund" - but also to get lost in. It's perhaps for this reason that the most quietly melodious cut, ambient inspired closer "Skaka Skaka Hund", is also the most memorable.