Loco Dice
Harissa
Cadenza
Coming months after his summer hit "Seeing Through Shadows", Loco Dice releases "Harissa" on Luciano's label Cadenza. Cadenza, which earlier this year released both Ricardo Villalobos' celebrated "Achso" as well as Thomas Melchior and Luciano's stunning "Solomon's Prayer/Father", has quickly become an extremely hot label. "Harissa" is much like "Achso" in that both contained four tracks each around 12-13 minutes, and both take minimal techno to great heights.
"Harissa" begins with "Raindrops on My Window", which opens the record nicely with subtle beats and some mumbling vocals. It proceeds quickly but its length allows it plenty of room to breathe. The next track, "Paradiso", is the most immediate of the four. It's a straightforward minimal track, slightly in vein of "Seeing Through Shadows". Good, but not as important as the others on the EP.
Up next is "Vamos a Cali", which, like the first track, experiments with minimal techno. It begins directionless, but soon comes together to a cohesive whole. The last track, "A Chico A Rytmico", may be the best on the EP. It, like its bretheren, excels in the subtle building of the track, but it has something about it that sets it apart from the others.
"Harissa" presents a kind of minimal that is becoming very popular. It's clear that the length of tracks are changing, and with these longer tracks producers are really attempting to explore the soundscapes with which they are working. If "Fizheuer Zieheuer" was any indication, longwinded minimal is here to stay.
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