Dapayk Solo – Decade One (2000-2010)

The first part of this two-disc retrospective of Dapayk Solo is subtitled ‘For Headphones, Couches and Cars’, and accordingly contains a selection of the German producer’s more downbeat numbers. Taking in minimal, broken, techno and house, Dapayk’s production is polished, precise, with a few hints of the sort of jazz that German label Compost has long pushed.

Most exciting is when the tracks are allowed to build into a metronomic, cinematic rush: piano-led opener Estral and clattering third track Serrenge Isma promise good things. A techier technique is exposed on the shuffling, Detroity All the Same, and Back to Me is full-on St Germain-style jazz club pastiche. There’s a real stinker in the form of Emergency 2010, a sugary semi-acoustic duet with his wife, and the middle of the album sags too much to warrant a start-to-finish listen. Disc Two is a more straightforward set of club-focused minimal remixes of Dapayk tracks, and you can never have too much of that. [Euan Ferguson]