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CMU Approved
Approved: Martyn – The Air Between Words
By Paul Vig | Published on Thursday 19 June 2014
Martijn Deijkers, or Matryn as you might know him, returns this week with his third album, ‘The Air Between Words’, the follow-up to 2011’s rather excellent ‘Ghost People’.
Through eighteen years of DJing, Martyn has only been a producer for less than a third of this time, and since his last LP he has been exploring analogue-based sounds, mirrored in his DJing by moving back to vinyl rather than laptop. On ‘The Air Between Words’ he has come up trumps once again, melding a soundscape that adds techno and dubstep, and some 2step in to boot.
There are a lot of different textures and moods on the record. The Juan Atkins-influenced ‘Two Leads And A Computer’ features sparse and stripped down beats, while Four Tet collaboration ‘Glassbeadgames’ nods towards M25 rave culture, and ‘Forgiveness 2’ leans towards the chugging pulses of Warp’s Autechre.
It’s a real grower, truly better on repeated listening and really makes Martyn one to follow. His sound is still shifting and morphing – and is very much all the better for it.
Listen to the album in full here:
