( AM 004 ) Hokuto SATO - Deja Vu EP (12") - Aura Music Japan

Japan's Hokuto Sato is back on his own Aura Music with three dubby and colourful waves of deep, minimalistic techno-house. "Deja Vu" is the sort of thing that DJ Qu would conjure up, except that Sato strips things back even further, and in the same vein as the Villalobos school of thought. On the flipside, "Solarization" spews glitches from all angles amid its icy folds of sound, and "24/60 Sec" adds a similar layer of impenetrable aqueous sonics to a tight snap of drums and percussion.