Brendon Moeller
Sprawl Circuitry
Delsin
If you want proof an artist can make a considerable pivot in their sound deep into their career and land it, look no further than Brendon Moeller. Having earned a reputation as a reliable practitioner of dub-informed house and techno over a considerable timespan, the New York-based South African stalwart has in the past couple of years shaken off the comfort blanket of midtempo 4/4. Applying his rich, dynamic production chops to a vivid, exploratory tapestry of energies, he’s offered up everything from dreamy, jazz-tinted downtempo and gorgeous ambient mosaics to angular broken techno and astounding 160 bpm experiments. The man is clearly having some kind of eureka moment, and his latest missive on Delsin continues this hot streak in superlative fashion.
There’s actually a dubstep sensibility guiding the mood of Sprawl Circuitry, and though the entire 140 scene is currently experiencing a sort of rejuvenation, Moeller has contributed to that energy with a palette and a swerve that are all his own. “Feast Of Snakes” has a heads-down, moody minimalism around its core groove, but that just leaves ample space for the song’s visceral, spatially dextrous sonics to strike out and set the pressure. “Vortex Patro”’ gets even more articulate between its tightly clipped, artfully squashed drums and fathoms-deep textural work, creating a staggeringly three-dimensional sound field in the process.
Moeller stretches out comfortably across Sprawl Circuitry‘s six tracks, locking into wormhole techno with gnarly swagger on the title cut and hypnotic, semi-weightless sci-fi soundscaping on “Void Loop.” It all bristles with intrigue and hits heavy, crying out for a full body soundsystem experience. Taken on its own, the record would be a show-stopping effort from any producer, but coming from Moeller, it’s just more proof of what rude health his creativity is in these days.
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