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Stanislav Tolkachev - Champions Breakfast [Raw Waxes]

by Stanislav Tolkachev

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Haiku’s Raw Waxes label is delighted to welcome the famously unconventional Stanislav Tolkachev with a new track EP of experimental techno and IDM sounds. Entitled Champions Breakfast and with brilliant artwork from German Benedikt Rugar, the release features six cuts, one of which, ‘Negative Space’, is a previously digital-only track landing here on vinyl for the very first time.

Haiku has long been a fan of Ukrainian Tolkachev having previously collaborated on a remix for the label, while Tolkachev has also released on Haiku’s other label Inkblots. This new EP is one that not only shows off the label’s willingness to take risks and put out diverse and interesting electronic music, but also one that proves Tolkachev is a truly unique artist with his own musical voice. He has been that way for more than a decade now, and has put out three long players as well as countless EPs that get heavy support from the tastemakers of the day. This latest offering contains his take on the essentialness of groove, enriched by his use of atonality, dissonance and acid-not-acid textures, all in a minimal style.

The deep ’Shady’ kicks things off with spangled synth lines and eerie pads off in the distance. It’s a lonely and insular piece with kinked rhythms that keep you locked. The excellent ‘The Main Thing Is To Survive’ is then less constrained, with kicks that rock back and forth as off kilter synth lines warp and wrap around each other in mind melting and tripped out fashion.

Switching up the mood with ease, ‘Fuck This Guy’ is a dark and musty passage of humid ambient techno with static electricity buzzing about over smeared pads that are filled with menace, then the curious ‘Wait In My Mouth’ is about blurting, busted frequencies, loose and scattered drums and glassy melodies. It’s a mangled and mashed up track that sounds like little else. ‘Negative Space’ is horror soundtrack techno with urgent, driving drums and nervy sound design that keeps you on edge, and closer ‘Self Destruction’ is built on broken, bristling beats. A rhythm slowly emerges from the haze and it is one that is physical and restless and sure to make a big impact in the club.

This is a varied and vital EP that oozes essential electronic invention.

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released April 18, 2018

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