S MOREIRA Vinilo y CD

Review: Berlin's Slow Life continues its impressive run of form, and drops yet another EP by the prodigious Sergio Moreira, except that this time the Spanish producer is joined by Italy's Saverio Celestri across four tough and twisted house cuts. "Aftertouch" is a broken, rolling bundle of drums and starry pads, whereas "Karmikstrikes" is straighter in its beat structure but nonetheless spaced-out in terms of its sonics. On the B-side, "Hypnosphere" shoots bursts of subtle 303 through its wormhole of a groove, and "Interphase Issues" unleashes a heavier, more aggressive techno tone through its stuttering percussion rattle. Choice cuts.

Review: Since making his debut six years ago, Sergio Moreira has released countless singles exploring his personal take on drowsy deep house and left-of-centre electronic futurism. Because of that, this debut album feels long overdue. From start to finish, it feels like the set of a producer comfortable in his own skin. While many will be dazzled by the three-part suite at the centre of the album - "Bring Back The Night", which subtly twists and turns over 15 warm, glassy-eyed minutes like a breakbeat-sporting deep house version of a classical epic - there's plenty to set the pulse racing elsewhere. Highlights include the bass-heavy, breakbeat-driven peak-time dubbiness of "One Last Thought", the Motor City techno electronics and shuffling bottom end of "Controlling Transmission" and the hazy opener "From Here To There".

Review: Sergio Moreira probably doesn't get enough sleep. Certainly, the sheer volume of tracks he releases suggests that he barely rests. Happily, the Spanish producer has the knack of consistently delivering strong EPs, as his latest outing for Slow Life deftly proves. He begins with the rising, stretched-out strings and bustling house rhythms of "The Truth", before fusing warm Rhodes chords, tech-jazz electronics and swinging broken beats on the impeccable "My Reality". Flip for "That Was Just A Dream", where toasty organ chords are underpinned by a bubbly tech-jazz groove, and the accompanying Indi Zone remix, which blasts the track into deep ambient space via glistening IDM.

Review: Slow Life staple S.Moreira continues his explorations into evocative and futuristic Motor City themes on a new EP accompanied by the SL collective's visual designer Indi Zone aka Santi Uribe - making his second foray into production since SL008. "Santergio & Sergiago" sees the pair create some truly sublime tracks: from the mesmerising, psychedelic electronica of "Space-A-Nova" reminiscent of John Beltran or Neil Ollivierra's seminal works. They're then joined by Israeli bassist Yonatan Levi, who some of you may know from his collaborations with minimal veteran Bruno Pronsato, who contributes to the lo-slung hi-tech jazz of "Hazed" and the particularly chilled-out "Kalimojo On The Rocks".