Slope114

A warm welcome back to wax for San Francisco twosome Slope 114 (Dimitri SFC and Elise Gargalikis), who resurface on Mark Ambrose's Crayon imprint five years after delivering their self-released (and impossible to find) debut album. The focal point of the release is title track 'Dystopian Blues', where Gargalikis' free-spirited vocals rise above dense, moody chords, locked-in bass and crispy drum machine beats. The pair explores the deep, dubby and spaced-out end of the West Coast house spectrum on their own accompanying dub, before Ambrose brilliantly blends the spaced-out sonics of Bay Area deep house with dubby UK tech-house influenced and the far-sighted futurism of Detroit techno. Bonus cut 'Emu-2', meanwhile, is a more nostalgic chunk of early morning deep house headiness.