Chez de Milo - Bushwa EP

Pre-pandemic, James Dyer was a rising star on the Bristol club scene, with a trademark sound that tended towards the cosmic, chugging and otherworldly. Here he makes his production bow as Chez de Milo on local label Futureboogie, beginning brilliantly with the throbbing, paranoid and wide-eyed ‘Bushwa’, where intense, undulating acid lines, bleeping melodies and seriously spooky pads bubble away atop a thrusting, bass-heavy groove. His love of bleeps and ambient techno era electronics is further explored on ‘Mantella’ and the more dubbed-out, sub-heavy trip that is ‘Golden Ratio’. Also worth a listen is the Smagghe & Cross version of ‘Bushwa’, which features two long dark and driving sections of trippy dancefloor pleasure divided by a brilliantly bizarre ambient breakdown.