Audiopile Review: The duo of PLO Man and SnP 500 return with a quick turnaround after their debut 12” release, Seven Hundred And Fifty Loops, issued just a few months back. Now swinging for the fences with a triple pack that goes even further into the expansive minimal techno explored on their entree, SnPLO make good on that promising start. Spinning off their respective and interconnected imprints—SnP 500’s (aka Montreal’s DJ Spence) DOO Records, and PLO Man’s Acting Press, based in Berlin—the duo launched the Pin sub-label as a specific space to carve out their particular pursuit of stripped-down but incredibly immersive techno. Traversing the galactic superhighway that connected Detroit to Berlin in the ‘90s, the duo leave their own smoked-out imprint on the timeless sound. Their respective solo output mesh particularly well—the loopy, deconstructed techno of PLO Man (formerly based in Vancouver, it should be noted) under guises like CC Not, Globex and INTe*ra dovetails neatly with the extended, trippy house workouts of SnP 500. “Lastday Cookie” kicks off the six tracker with a lengthy excursion of locked-groove house rhythms and whisps of eerie ambience, the duo then ratcheting up the dubby haze for the submersed “no hats” mix of the same track. “Smokerecording” doubles down on the dub-wise dalliance, the rhythms floating in a blunted miasma of cross-faded echo, which is then chased by another inversion, “Smok2”, sending it all upward in a deliriously zonked spiral. The fifth and sixth sides push this set even further outwards, “Reduced peaking” lands with a near-Pan Sonic level of minimalist detailing, and the whole adventure concludes with “f1”, a brief toying with volume and static that’s sure to clear your head after this dazed trip. This is gonna be a must-grip for anyone who’s been following either of these producers, but it also comes highly recommended for fans of Topdown Dialectic, the new Peak Oil sub-label False Aralia (should have their two new releases in the shop next year) or Hashman Deejay’s ongoing collab with C3D-E, 0. Edition of 400, only getting one shot at these.

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