ELL041

"The Tesseract Ep"

Though quality techno is regularly associated with the colder climates of Berlin and Detroit, the recent developments happening on the Iberian Peninsula have been hard to ignore. One of the region's more interesting and consistent producers in this decade has been Maceo Plex, owner of the Ellum Audio label. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of signature club sounds, and with an ability to investigate 'darker' side of modern life (a tendency that can be heard especially well on past Plex-produced tracks like 'Conjure Balearia'), Plex has located the 'Goldilocks zone' between funk liberation and mechanical control. Mastering this balancing act is a skill that separates the best producers from the legions of also-rans: it shines through in his back catalog and is back in full force for his new 'Tesseract' EP on Ellum.