From the opening bars, you can tell that Soap Opera is the work of a rare talent rather than one of the myriad of faceless producers inspired by Basic Channel. Grummich has developed a distinctive style within the minimal canon and his spiky beats, gnarled bass and deconstructed percussive slivers underpin every track. Irrrespective of whether he is chilling with hypnotic numbers like ‘Incoming’ and ‘Orange Moon’, or going for the dance floor jugular with the mad time signatures of recent single ‘A Roboter’ and the insistent ‘The Animal’, a bold experimental approach defines this mini-masterpiece.