Music
Embera [10" Clear Vinyl]
Stroboscopic ArtefactsSATOTEM006
Techno
10"
£9.99 (£11.99 incl. VAT)
A. Embera B. Saija C. Awa
A staple of South America’s ever-effervescing techno community, Colombian-born producer Adriana
Lopez sure ain’t no stranger to the aficionados of wild four-to-the-floor epics, having delivered the
totality of her typical, custom cut bunker-busters on Developer’s Modularz and her own imprint, Grey
Report, in about a decade of intense dancefloor activism.
For her first sortie away from her usual recording homes, Adriana steps up in no real unknown
territory either, with Stroboscopic Artefacts’ Totem series providing a much suitable shelter for her
deep-penetration, quaky club weaponry to grow and expand.
Kicking things off in frontally brutal fashion, the title-track ‘Embera’ sets the mood right away,
swallowing us amidst the countless spans and layers of hypno-tech quicksands. With the kinetic
energy gauge now set to eleven and kicks thumping their way across a forest of obsessive synth
spirals, Adriana then whips up a frenzy of delayed percussions, spaced-out riffs and jammed radar
echoes on ‘Saija’, sure to keep the dancers in a state of wilful enslavement.
Opting for a more straightforward, steady-flying angle of attack, the EP’s closer ‘Awa’ tops it all off on
an equally abrasive and elegant note, true to Adriana’s trademark mix of groove-making finesse and
uplifting potency.