Latency Recordings: From One Mind to the Other

Last year Deconstruct Music, casually as ever, dropped its first release in 3 years by a little known producer named Joey Anderson. Of course Levon Vincent is not known for his lighthearted "give it a go" approach to stamping his name to new music, he's a purist through and through and believes in only releasing what really needs to be out there, a philosophy which he rigorously applies to his own productions. It was pretty tough to be skeptical at the time, Earth Calls was everything it should have been, rivaling some of the Novel Sound productions, but I couldn't be sold entirely on that record. This month Joey Anderson released From One Mind to the Other on the new label Latency Recordings, and I'm completely sold.

Press Play is slow-build club ambiance, a nod to Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman and the kind of measured minimalism which slots it somewhere between 4am basement tune and sunrise euphoria. Of course it's the kind of tune, like most of Levon's most bewilderingly genius moments, that just needs a balance between sound and bass - listening on laptop speakers can't do it justice, without the thump of the bass everything mellows out just a little too much.

Mind Set's dark vocals and tribal bounce progress slowly, gaining density without becomming cramped, again measured and perfected sampling create something immersive and textured, evoking the simple beauty of Carl Craig's 69.

Attitude takes us somewhere else, straight away a thumping bass drum unfurls twisted vocals haunts, progressing into snippets of synth and bleeps, all the while kick drum presses on, the effect is something like an endless build, sitting between the abyss of Silent Servant's A Path Eternal and the summery shimmers of Four Tet.

The sound across all three cuts is delineated into three separate statements, but with a key joining element that is the method of production; these three are constructed with the same meticulous attention to detail, with patience and a small amount of nerve. They prove there is a hell of a lot to link the dancefloor with the ambient beauty of electronic composition and that you don't have to stray far from either if you take the time to get the balance right.

On top of the production, you have to hand it to Latency for producing a brilliant package of artwork and a stunning video too (below). Truly stunning and caring production.

Artwork by: Timothée Elkaim, Souleymane Said, Pablo Hnatow