V/A :: Part Time Archivists | Part Time Forgers (Necessary Unfold)

Necessary Unfold draws together the collective consciousness of contemporary Greek electronic music in their Various Artist label launch collection Part Time Archivists / Part Time Forgers. Coalescing electro, breaks, acid sensibilities, and IDM intent, we get 12 sublime Saturday-night anthems primed for a proper underground, word-of-mouth gathering. Summer radiates through the set.

Summer radiates through the set

 

Necessary Unfold draws together the collective consciousness of contemporary Greek electronic music in their Various Artist label launch collection Part Time Archivists / Part Time Forgers. Coalescing electro, breaks, acid sensibilities, and IDM intent, we get 12 sublime Saturday-night anthems primed for a proper underground, word-of-mouth gathering. Summer radiates through the set.

We open with Rhythm Code Inc’s electro-break beauty “Corridor,” bouncing across every bar with an instinctive pull toward movement. The hips are locked in early; melodic fugues shimmer above a firm, grounding low-end kick. Mouh Aleb Ish’s “Flashback Recovery” is frankly stunning—snare stutters rattle like gunfire before collapsing into an amen break reworked with imagination, pushing beyond so-called rave tropes into something genuinely revitalized. Magical, and restless.

Future Draft keeps the funk tight and taut with “Cutting Edge,” channelling Reece bass pressure and moody tonal shifts, offset by wicked bleep-and-clonk toplines and sweeping, almost cinematic strings. ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ drops tek-bass riddims over pole-bent subs and elastic woobs—pure kinetic release, a track that thrives on tension and snapback. TDK’s archetypal breakbeat assault pushes further into rave memory, all 1992 hardcore sensibilities—303 squelch, rapid-fire breaks, and unmistakable Atari-era rawness.

Letting bass pressure swell and release in waves ::

LEGACY goes straight for acid breaks with a cut that wouldn’t feel out of place on Hard Hands—think “Dark Globe” lineage, but retooled for now. Varonos leans into acid electro with towering synth work, letting bass pressure swell and release in waves before we find a moment of fragile calm in tsev’s “Phone Call from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minb [sic],” where piano refrains loop in soft portamento, cycling like memory fragments that won’t settle.

DJDim brings machine-funk precision with “TH1S1 5MY7R 4CKD3 3P4C1 D1825,” [I know, right?!] locking the groove into something both mechanical and warm, its acid lines bubbling with a quiet insistence. XU’s “Late Movie” is a tech-funk stepper—confident, strutting, almost theatrical in its phrasing, ululating through polished sonic contours. DJ Tsoug drops a fast, final break-driven piece that resists slipping into drum & bass cliché, keeping things agile and sharp.

Closer Athens Computer Underground draws the compilation inward—depth, weight, and a surprising tenderness. Rather than delivering a clean sense of closure, it suspends the energy in a kind of afterglow, where everything that came before seems to refract and settle into something quieter but no less present. It lingers like residual signal, humming just beneath the surface long after the system powers down.

Part Time Archivists | Part Time Forgers is available on Necessary Unfold. [Bandcamp]