For our 5-year compilation released one year ago, a newcomer put out his first track on the label: Attiss Ngo. We had been really surprised by his Boiler Room live set in Hô Chí Minh City. The hectic and constantly developing sound he was bringing sounded like nothing else out there. Curiously, not much info about this artist was available and we were wondering why no album and even no EP or single track from this man was out despite his performance feeling more than mature. Soon enough, Attiss submitted the track "Take It Downstairs", a short track with the right amount of crazy vocals with nervous and jumpy percussion. No doubt this track found a spot on our compilation. No doubt either that we were already thinking of further collaborations. As someone who was first into jazz, classical and rock, and who has been doing endless recordings in his studio which never saw the light of day, it was predictable that Attiss would wait for the right occasion to move forward with a first EP. No emergency was pushing him, however the growing passion for electronic music of all kinds was slowly but surely taking its effect and working in his favor. His passion for the synthesizers unlimited amount of options as well as its sound’s immediate impact on the listener had fascinated him since the very beginning. As he says himself "There's something about the pure, simple yet otherworldly sound of a humming oscillator that I find particularly beautiful. It's a minimal sound. Its simplicity means that we react to very subtle changes and a listener can detect it even in a very dense soundscape of 'real' sounds". Well, something was there in Attiss’ mind, only waiting for the right moment to make its final assault. That's why the Vietnamese producer who had a clear and precise idea of how to create his first EP did not send us an extended demo but rather the EP itself, with the titles and track order already made. The job was done and he knew it. "Amputees Of The Astral Plane" is the title that he chose for his EP and after discussing a bit more with him, it made a lot of sense. Let's just copy-paste straight out of our mail conversation with him: "During the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020, I started to go crazy in my house. I was trying to make a straight-up techno record to offer to Goldmin, but it just wasn't coming. Like many people, I was convinced that I had to make something to justify all the time and money lost from being forced to stay home, and I was becoming frustrated with my shit work. I felt like the whole world was going crazy, and I along with them. I decided to channel my rage & aggression into a different sort of record, a record about fear and distrust, not about dancing & grooving. My studio at the time wasn't soundproofed, and there was a house being built nearby - the construction noise was seeping in all the time, making me feel more and more frustrated. Then one day it was gone. I had just laid down the sketch for the first track, Lights Go Low, when the construction stopped. The track sounded empty and foreign without that noise. I realized that the sound of the construction had actually been a part of the track all along, and with that realization I also felt connected to the world again. I remembered that there were other people out there in the world going through the same bullshit. I was not cut off from the world ("Amputees Of The Astral Plane" is my phrase to describe the feeling of being lost from a collective consciousness), rather, I was a part of it, and I was making music for real people, not some imaginary idea like "productivity" or "continuity" or anything like that - - - real music for real people. So I made recordings of construction sites to put back into the first track to make it feel whole again. The other two tracks followed easily." The result of this keen and profound creative period is a pure electronic music EP where Attiss runs from cinematic experimental soundscapes to turbulent modulated techno arpeggios with incredible ease. And luckily, it's probably only the beginning of what this guy can come up with.