The 18th addition to Observant’s catalog is provided by the Italian producer ‘Hanton’. Titled “Desiderio” this EP is a testament to his brevity for serving up structured textures consolidated to corrugated beats.

The opener “Ambiente” is a claustrophobic chugger with a precocious body to the low end, showing off it’s subdued off-beat kicks as it begins, and swiftly ascends into a textural frenzy of corrosive plucks and dark pads that cryptically call and respond. Kinetic toms sit beneath the heaving kick drums of “Desiderio” along with a modulated synth-line taking on a few iterations through the bars of this grisly and tactile offering. Rounding off with “Eterna” the final output from Hanton, breaking up the monotony of a four to the floor beat, this spicy euclidian drum work trades typical synth lines for assertive drones and shapeshifting resonant noises.

Selected meticulously to lend sonic extensions are remixers dc11 and Yogg. The hardware fixated Parisian ‘dc11’ smudges “Desiderio” with microscopic rhythms and what appears to be the modulated synth line from the original asking a very long question interjected by kick drums varying slightly in velocity. Clearly, with a penchant for delivering functional yet cerebral techno, this is for the mature minds. The second remix comes from Antwerp’s ‘Yogg’ who choses to offer a slightly uptempo narrative of ‘Ambiente’ bending and reshaping its primary resonant sweep as the measures progress. Gossamer-like FM percussions chug along all through its poignant interplay that feels volatile as everything moves in and out of focus.