New Kompakt label K2 marks its inaugural release with, uh, Steadycam. No worries, though, the label is intended to showcase up-and-coming producers. And while none of the tracks are exactly stand-outs, they’re all of the sort of Kompakt quality that makes their releases hardly worth mentioning anymore. The A-side is “Caress”’ micro-edits and propulsive bass and “Stay There”’s abstracto-dub-house which owes more than a little bit to Mikkel Metal. On the flipside, “Ding” gets more acidic as the track rolls along, while “Allvar” takes some knifing synth stabs and runs them through the sequencer for the majority of its rhythmic and melodic elements.

K2 / K2/01
[Todd Burns]