Gregor Tresher - The Now People / Battery

Germany is world renowned as a techno spewing powerhouse, and Gregor Tresher is one of its most promising new producers, recently delivering an impressive remix of Sven Väth's Komm. His latest release is a deep and minimal affair. The Now People builds gradually with a pulsating kick drum and a rapturously murky synth stab, breeding to a glutinous and hypnotic bassline that slithers and rises like a charmed snake. It's a restrained track but a compelling one, and would certainly serve to sustain the mesmeric drive of any good minimal set. Battery is a good shade funkier, a lurid rhythm workout peppered with micro hats and an evocatively simple synth hook, building on textures while consistently maintaining its sparse narcotic groove. Though not his best work, this record proves that Tresher can do minimal, and while it may not set the club alight there's certainly enough there to keep a busy dancefloor on their feet. [Calum Rodger]