After making his label debut last year on the roster round-up, Higher Love Recordings Volume 1, Munich-based producer, Philip Leroi, aka Atlantic Brain, returns to the Brighton imprint with a solo long-player. Entitled Human-Human Interface, it's an album of two halves, reflecting Philip's passion for a wide range of electronic music, regardless of genre, while also showcasing his significant musical chops. Moving between no holds barred dance floor numbers, and moments of more chilled ambience. Having begun releasing music nearly two decades ago Philip boasts a back catalogue of some 50 tracks and remixes, including those for respected outfits such as Mute and DFA - most recently contributing to the Space Station Part 5 E.P. on Prins Thomas' Internasjonal.


Street Credibility opens proceedings with some chunky old school house. Full of detail - tumbling timbales, funky guitar flourishes, bright brass blasts - it's shot clear anywhere near 'standard' by some proper piano - performed by someone who can actually play. Cutting loose a sublime solo that effectively divides the tune in two. Fun Is Our Business is a block-rocking throwback to the seminal '80s electro of sides like Electric Kingdom, by Twilight 22, and acts such as The Jonzun Crew. Racing along on hot-wired whip cracks, slamming snares, and acidic arpeggios. Landing somewhere in between these previous pieces, A Simple Thank You, dances, driven by drum rolls and cascading machined hand claps - synthesizing a soundtrack to a swooning robotic romance. Odesa In Space is delirious, delicious, lascivious, lysergic. Tailored from trippy, trance-y, sequences, and flatulent TB-303 flexing. In contrast, Julia's Song is much, much, mellower. Sonically sketching a warm, but windswept, landscape, using wonderful washes of beautiful bluesy guitar. A score for a tropical honeymoon, for sure. The title track packs percussive, marimba-like percolations, which conjure up classics by Wally Badarou and The Compass Point All-Stars. The beatless Tough Problems, Easy Solutions bubbles, slightly darker. Lush, rich, with ethereal emissions, and subliminal sighs, it's a rippling, but calm, punt down a rhythmically pulsating kosmische river. On Business Is Our Fun, Philip's ringing riffs and bionic counterpoint, build to a similarly serene, final crescendo. Reaching, bringing the set to a dramatic, climatic, conclusion.

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