There are certain artists who seem to consistently deliver the goods, musicians who constantly drive their machines into the ground, and the red, to create their own brand of brazen debauchery. DimDJ (aka Dimitris Evagelopoulos), is one of them. With releases on Lower Parts, Mathematics and TH ± Tar Hallow, the Thessaloniki producer returns to his home-based label of June Records.
There are certain artists who seem to consistently deliver the goods, musicians who constantly drive their machines into the ground, and the red, to create their own brand of brazen debauchery. DimDJ (aka Dimitris Evagelopoulos), is one of them. With releases on Lower Parts, Mathematics and TH ± Tar Hallow, the Thessaloniki producer returns to his home-based label of June Records.
Seven tracks make up this mini-album, his second on the Greek imprint. A rumbling sequence of arpeggios introduces “9th of May.” Acid are folded in with a dollop of distortion to bend the steady kick and burrowing claps. Whimsy arrives with the cascading notes of “1992.” Cut in the traditions of house, the track bubbles and simmers with a contained energy that never boils over. Although the tools of Guilty Pleasure and the split EP on Endless Illusion are being employed, for Recurring Patterns they have been utilised to a different effect. Much of the rawness, the jagged edges and serration has been filleted and rounded off. “Acid.FM” is a perfect example of this where melodies are allowed to simply meander and find their own way. Rust is poured on to the proceedings on the flip. “Bold” refuses to sit still, fidgeting and shifting from one angular turn to another. Once again the machines are set spinning with the whirling grit of “White Lodge.” The outlier of the LP is also its apex of natural progression. “Jazz Radio” is the most abstract and understated of the proceedings, loops and squeal tethered to a lone 4/4 beat as DimDJ strips back all to a reduced essence.
Recurring Patterns sees Evagelopoulos pare back the aggression of some of his previous productions, yet that unrefined quality remains. Nevertheless, the intensity with which he has created his compositions is ever present. Rather than a shift in style, this album is new step in the DimDJ sound.
Recurring Patterns is available on June.
