Linkwood follows last year’s ‘Mono’ with ‘Stereo’ for AOTN, distilling reference points ranging from West Coast synth soul to Italo disco and Drexciyan electro with his specialized late night steez.

WitLinkwood keeps his legacy of timeless machine funk alive across 11 deft hardware executions that highlight his fluid touch on the buttons and a key feel for extracting soul from electronic sources.

‘I’m Ready’ dials in a hair-kissing vocoder and synth intro before letting loose with classic Environ disco vibes on ‘RunStop’ or ‘Love’, and snapping into Drexciyan funk reveries on ‘Joystick’, ’S-Mode’ and the gauzy beauty of ‘Clusters’ and ‘Lookup’. He layers the harmonised soul on treacly thicc for the MDMA crew in the electrosoul flow of ‘DipDab’, and no doubt echoes MJB’s ruder sentiments in ‘Ping’, beside a lovely patch of BoC-like heathered ambient synth hues on ‘Glow’.