The Artist/Album: Byetone, SyMeta (Raster-Noton, 2011)
The Reason(s) We Can’t Stop Listening: With a sound that’s surprisingly warm and welcoming given its sleek, austere sleeve—designed by Olaf Bender himself; he’s Raster Noton’s label manager and head graphic designer—SyMeta is rooted in minimal techno, yet coated in enough sticky grooves and grimy noise loops to keep things from sounding restrained or removed. In anything, it’s a testament to the live settings Byetone developed each track in, right down to such “oh shit!” moments as the dance-pop drop in “Black Peace” and the scary German man who brings things home in “Golden Elegy.”
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