Nicola Cruz - 'Prender el Alma' VinylAlbum from 2015. Following his collaboration with Nicolas Jaar's Clown & Sunset label, Cruz has self produced and self recorded this landmark album. Prender el Alma is a new strain of Latin American music Cruz calls Andes Step. Influenced by new digital technology, blended with local influence, Cruz builds his tracks layer by layer, instrument by instrument, drum by drum, exploring local indigenous and Afro cosmologies in a modern setting. From

The music too is more expansive

breezy edits

lined with a whompy bass & crystalline chords while Sunriser is a more dubbed out

explore spacey textures and ambient colors from an amorphous cast of friends and family members

which ushered in a gauzier take on the sublime dub abstraction found in his subsequent uon productions

jazz chords

It’s the real me

Current residents at the beloved Blitz Club

quite aptly titled Techno Disco Tool

it saw the group perform Maida Valesessions for both Gilles Peterson and Tom Ravenscroft

Sonically rich

before stepping up the ghosted dub dynamic on a driving ‘Less Of That Mix’