( AGT 008 ) LLOPIS - Lobster Tan (reissue) (12") AGT Spain

Spanish imprint AGT continues to unearth cult classics and slept-on gems to reissue. This time round, they take us back to 2005 and the final outing of Christian Llopis (so far, at least) as Llopis. A-side 'Lobster Tan' is dark, driving and lightly acid-flecked, with spooky noises, mind-mangling motifs and echo-laden percussion fills riding a weighty tech-house beat and a deep, driving bassline. 'Stimulation' explores the more dubby, atmospheric and foreboding end of the mid-00s tech-house spectrum - think Berlin clubs on Sunday morning, rather than the UK deep-tech sound - while 'Back In The Days' is glitchy, percussive, sub-heavy and deliciously druggy, with only some sparkling, progressive house influenced melodic motifs breaking the hypnotising, early morning spell.