Haron – Taxa

ARTIST Haron
RELEASE TITLE Taxa
LABEL Queeste
CATALOG QUEESTE005
GENRE Techno (Peak Time / Driving / Hard), Experimental/Electronic
AUDIO FORMAT MP3 320kbps CBR
RELEASE DATE 2020-07-03
MP3 NiTROFLARE / ALFAFILE

1. Haron – Benthos (Original Mix) 06:02 69bpm Cmin
2. Haron – Drosera (Original Mix) 04:36 139bpm Amin
3. Haron – Pantala (Original Mix) 04:16 109bpm Cmaj
4. Haron – Pincertail (Original Mix) 07:00 126bpm Fmaj

Harons Taxa EP dips into a world of fizzing electronics and draws from it four potent club mutations. Having explored spacious ambient on 2018s well-received Wandelaar, the Dutch producer shifts his attention to full-body rhythms. These newly prepared compositions, the first club release on Queeste, are dappled with synthesised colour and unexpected timbral shifts, aligning the producer with global bass permutations while maintaining his own playful course.

The skittering dancefloor percussion of opening track Drosera immediately signals this shift in direction, leading effortlessly into the tightly coiled drums of Benthos whose name is taken from the community of organisms that dwell on the seabed. In a nod to Wandelaars serene tones, the track ends with weightless ambience alongside snippets of human voices, a single moment of stillness on a release elsewhere defined by movement. Pantala is pristine computerised dancehall teeming with disembodied samples and impressionistic swirls of noise before Taxa ends with Pincertail whose bustling syncopations recall UK funky at its nimblest.

No less evocative than his beatless work, on this release Haron has crafted his own idiosyncratic abstraction of club music, one imbued with joyful melodies and a giddy, pleasingly destabilising sensibility.