If you're looking for a friendly way into the Opal Tapes catalogue I'm afraid there isn't one. However, this is a great (and very decently priced) introduction to the distinct sound this label has made its own with some fantastic slices of techno. AJ.
Karen Gwyer unfolds through three long and interesting pieces a focused array of old-school synthesizers and psychedelic influences.
While the last track Hippie Fracca is much closer to ambient and could remind the soundtrack of a 70's movie taking place in space, the first two patiently build frenetic techno patterns holding an incredible emotional charge, climaxing in You Big when it combines the pump organ drones and the errating vocals.
Incredible EP on a fantastic label. Dotflac
The German "quasi-free jazz" duo's debut LP is a crisply detailed trip through soundscapes that are playful and eerie in equal measure. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 14, 2020
Perfume Advert are going from strength to strength and +200 Gamma is another disheveled but sublime agglomeration of druggy textures and smudged beats to get thoroughly lost in. House that's been dragged through a hedge backwards. Nic Brown