US producer Damon Wild drops his third artist album with a selection that puts most club techno producers to shame. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Wild has been making music for longer than most of his peers that makes his approach more measured and open-minded. From the tough, dense crunchy opening of ‘Mr Mean’ and ‘Like Dis’ to the deeper ‘Silver’ – which sounds like an updated version of Secret Cinema’s ‘Timeless Altitude’ to the morphing, haunting dub of ‘Traveller’ and the deep ‘Tribeca’, this is the sound of a master at work.
Dance album of the fortnight