DJ-Kicks

A year after he released his fourth Actress album, Darren Cunningham adds his own volume to !K7's long-running DJ-Kicks series. Mostly experimental techno in nature, its selections jump across years and decades, highlighted by the likes of Autechre, Moon B, and Reel by Real. Keeping with series custom, Cunningham incorporates an exclusive production of his own. Relatively straightforward compared to the drastically misshapen makeup of 2014's Ghettoville, the ambient techno track is both potent and substantial, 13-minutes long in unmixed form through the vinyl and digital download editions. In the mix, it functions as a shrewd lead-in to "Red Planet," an exceptional Larry Heard production from 1989. ~ Andy Kellman