Count Backwards vinyl

Berlin's resident hard edged popstrel Emika returns to Ninja Tune for a third time - with "Count Backwards" echoing her previous output in confounding expectations. Adventurous in its rhythmic leanings and cloaked in a smoky and sinister backdrop, "Count Backwards" has us wondering what Emika could achieve over the length of an album. This is complemented on the A Side by a suitably beefed up take from Kryptic Minds which really pushes some thick subs into the echoed out spaces. On the flip Berghain don Marcel Dettmann delivers two takes on the original, with the opening and quite scary vocal edit dying to be utilised by the more adventurous producers out there - a sampled chunk of the track at 33rm is all the backing you need for a witch house track. Dettmann's remix is more familiar fare for the Berlin brigade, repositioning the percussive shuffle to a dubby industrial rattle filled with exquisite metallic textures.

Dave Miller, Rivet, Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz, Myles Serge, Edit Select, Speedy J, Kryptic Minds, Emika