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Fresh out of the Astral Plane is LOFT, a new voice in experimental club music LOFT is a new artist to emerge from the Astral Plane record label, slamming his placeless, genreless electronic music into the mix with his debut EP Turbulent Dynamics. It's a clever, queasy-sounding release that plays with ideas of glitch and the psychedelic, and ends up sounding throughout like the experience of being on drugs and not quite sure whether it's the most fun ever or the end of all things. Joel Sinclair created the trippy, glitchy album art that looks a bit like a CD-ROM with hyperlinks on it. Random is a good word to describe EP opener 'yes'. It's noise, punctuated by grungy samples of men screaming – surprisingly pleasant to listen to, probably because when you listen closely, you realise it's actually a pretty intelligent, mathematical drum solo. Leftfield techno 'Zissou' melts at various points throughout into musical tangents which distort time signature and beat and its video looks like it sounds. 'With Eye Contact' is softer and bears the influence of wonky beatmakers like Lapalux and even seems to reference SOPHIE in its water droplet-sounding samples and buzzing bassline. 'Heffalump' is the EP's most droppable bit of techno in terms of the dance floor, and it's a legitimate 6am stomper. At this point, LOFT could choose to reel in the masses with his clear knack for tech grooves, or wade further into less-explored dance beats, they both work out for him. NEW RELEASES PC Music play two shows this winter - one at London's Heaven and one at Berlin's Berghain House track of the month comes from Germany's Purple Disco Machine PC Music will bring all their star players to the lineup of their headline night at Heaven on Wednesday November 30. Label boss A. G. Cook heads proceedings. The show precedes the label's trip to Berlin to play at Berghain on December 1. The two shows mark the release of the label's second compilation - PC Music Vol. II, released November 18. The compilation features Danny L Harle's hit 'Broken Flowers' and other big tunes courtesy of PC Music. Lineup: A. G. Cook, Danny L Harle, EASYFUN, Felicita, GFOTY, Hannah Diamond, Lil Data, Spinee + special guests TB The title track from Purple Disco Machine's latest EP, Walls, is our house track of the month. The smooth, melancholic vocal is a pleasant alternative to the annoying, abrasive autotune such pop house is becoming known for. Released on Tube & Berger's Kitball records, it's the kind of satisfyingly deep piece of house that only a guitar lick can coax out of a computer. It might wear out its welcome soon, simple as it is musically, but the initial burst of the tune onto dancefloors will be euphoric. Also listen to EP highlight 'Drumatic'. NEWS: PC MUSIC GO TO HEAVEN TRACK OF THE MONTH: PURPLE DISCO MACHINE - WALLS ALBUM OF THE MONTH: LOFT - TURBULENT DYNAMICS 32 ISSUE 93 / 2016 Walls Purple Disco Machine Landsbelang Betonkust & Palmbomen Heffalump LOFT Odyssey, Pt. 2 (A. G. Cook Remix) Dreamtrak Being Broke Tom Trago Zulu (Kalyde Remix) GotSome Sleep Talk (Feat. Alex Mills) Chris Lorenzo Tightrope Yousef & Harry Romero It Wasn't Meant to Be Theo Kottis Rumours Outboxx Feat. Naomi Jeremy I Get Deep Roland Clark Connected Shadow Child HOUSE