Luke Abbott is one of the most exciting prospects in electronic music today, with two dazzling EPs under his belt and a forthcoming debut album all on James Holden’s Border Community label, as well as one of the last ever release on Trevor Jackson’s highly influential and much missed Output Recordings, we at Amazing Sounds are overjoyed to welcome Luke into the fold for a 4 track EP of delicious kraut-tech mayhem. Luke’s talent for entwining melody with deceptively complex drum and FX programming, and an invitingly warm production aesthetic that calls to mind raw minimal synth demos dubbed to damaged leaking old cassette tapes makes for a truly hypnotic and unique listening experience. Lead track ‘Honeycomb’ pits a pulsing 4:4 groove against hissing white noise and gurgling ascending arpeggios that lapse back and forth into tubular destruction, all the while building into a kind of spiraling euphoria. ‘One Hundred And Thirteen’ sees a fragile juddering drum track colliding with a stuttering synth melody, the whole beautfiul mess threating to unspool at any moment. ‘Present’ changes things up completely, throwing caution to the winds with a blistering pace of 164 BPM - it’s a truly raging ecstatic CHIP tune workout - like a lost Ron Hubbard composition for a fight sequence from The Last Ninja - arpeggios grinding together with an urgent tension that’s never quite released. Rounding out the package is ‘Schmitt Swell’ an apocalyptic noise-fest drenched in fizzing sawtooth waves and self-oscillating squealing squits and splats