Bubblescope [12"]

Snad is Shyam Anand, the MPC wizard also known as Spandrel, who grew up near Philadelphia before Chicago, Berlin and Mexico City; he runs the Spandrel imprint, co-runs We R The Aliens and has records on Running Back, Kimochi, Phonica and more. His three-tracker for Smallville gives the whole A side to "Bubblescope," fourteen and a half minutes of deep, bubbling modular textures driven by an Ensoniq DP/4 vocoder. Side B brings the broken-beat "Lukewarm Lava" and "Tanni," a longtime fixture of Julius Steinhoff's warm-up sets.

On 12" vinyl from Smallville, with full cover artwork by Stefan Marx.

• A1. Bubblescope
• B1. Lukewarm Lava
• B2. Tanni