It maintains a vintage sound that calls back to the work of Kraftwerk, but still holds its own with contemporaries when it comes to adventure and experimentation. From arpeggio odysseys to quirky dance tracks, this album has a lot to offer

Album · 2010 · 13 Songs. Holkham Drones Luke Abbott.

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Norfolk-based Luke Abbott draws more from minimalism and krautrock than grime, the clean lines of his analogue synth constructions employing steady pulses adorned with sparse bleeps and burring textures. The understated gamelan of resonant metallic synth tones in "Trans Forest Alignment" recalls the simpler creations of Neu! and Harmonia, while the standout opener "2nd 5th Heavy" employs loops of high-pitched, guitar-like electronics cycling in and out of sync like an early Steve Reich piece shifting the effect in a warmly satisfying way that never seeks to wrong-foot.

Luke Abbott hasn't so much developed as marinated. Five years, a half-dozen or so releases, one album. One album with little fanfare and no obvious banger. Last year's Whitebox Stereo EP impressed but hardly foretold future riches. His bashful, warm-hearted techno moves slowly, but apparently not slow enough; Abbott has camouflaged it with the word "drones. It's really difficult not to hear Holkham Drones as a positive album. At times the record sounds like a summer-months complement to Pantha du Prince's wintry romance, but there's nothing epic about Abbott. The good vibes here are tidier, perhaps as simple as enduring a day in which nothing negative really happened. Abbott accomplishes this through mostly traditional sounds.

Luke Abbott - Holkham Drones In an interview earlier this year with Juno Plus, James Holden opined that music made solely for clubs was the sort he "wouldn't want to hear at home or in a club. Three releases in 2009 and none before this month in 2010. All of which sets the stage for Luke Abbott's debut album for the label, Holkham Drones. After getting his start on Trevor Jackson's sadly defunct Output Recordings, the Norfolk producer found an ideal home with BC on 2008's Tuesday EP. Following last year's excellent Whitebox Stereo, Abbott's "Soft Attacks" served as a mesmeric entry point early on Holden's DJ Kicks earlier this year.

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Abbott knows about switching up a few gears, too, and while much of Holkham Drones preoccupies itself with ambient shades of relative minimalism compared to the aforementioned acts-of-reference, it does occasionally get a little wild. Baalnk clangs and clatters like Chris Clark, even if it doesn’t come close to rivalling the Warp-signed ’s predilection for synapse-scorching complexity