One of those rare, rare creatures these days - an artist and release with very little to no information available.

There’s a Myspace page, and a couple of links available to pick this up on the sly, but that’s about it.  It’s classified as dubstep, and I think that’s what initially drew me to it - but this is definitely not dubstep, at least in the typical sense.

It is more appropriate to classify this as the sort of deeper dub techno that instead ventures down the path of  Maurizio or Carl Craig for inspiration.  Absolutely sublime, the EP is reminiscent of classic Derrick May or Model 500.

A-side “Need to Sleep” drifts in on soothing filtered pads until a restrained electro beat drops in.  Everything’s in motion here, reaching outer depths of space and back again in momentary cycles.

The b-side, “Wind in die Risse” makes room for sparser percussion - I really didn’t even notice it was there until it was well on its way - flirting around a shimmering, mildly more aggressive mid-freq pad that would sound perfectly at home on any number of aforementioned Transmat releases.  When the horn-synth chords pipe in for the  final push, it’s an alien/human construct, the music of the spheres indeed.

Update: I was finally able to get onto Timely Aiah’s Myspace page, and he’s giving this release away for free. Get it via Mediafire.