Audiopile Review: Back to back winners from Dutch producer Mammo, who follows up the very recently highlighted 2×12” under his Fabiano guise with his first full length under his most notorious moniker. With about a dozen 12”s as Mammo and various ungoogleable pseudonyms (2301, 2302, 2401, A∞x, CoA-A) since arriving five years back, Mammo has quietly become one of underground dance music’s most reliable sources for finely detailed minimalism and exploratory ambi-techno. He’s always dealt in an effervescent edge that’s helped offset his abstracted programming, leaving in his wake an incredible string of now sought after EPs that dovetail nicely with the heady minimalism on offer over at Acting Press or A Visiting Link. But here Mammo shifts into full submersion mode, a direction hinted at with his recent turn to full on dub techno via last year’s appropriately titled ‘Slows The Pace And Goes Farther EP’, where he first flexed his prowess within the crowded realm of modern riddem providers. General Patterns doubles down on that promise (Slows The Pace Even More and Goes So Much Further??), his slow-ticking rhythms and glacial glitches unfolding over lengthy tracks that become subsumed in a tactile smog of Chain Reaction-inflected granular bass and dusted ambiance. A masterclass of tweaks on a well-worn genre that’s seemingly always got a little more space to knock out new spectral zones. An absolute stunner from start to finish.

A double pack from Mammo, six tracks digging deep. General Patterns is the first time he’s released a record outside of his own constellation of labels and identities. Something new.

You can file this one under (dub) techno too if you like. Linked to the music he’s made as Puddlerunner last year in some ways, or the texture of tracks like Variable. It was compiled with Short Span following the completion of intense work on the ambient album Landmarks under his given name Fabiano, and quickly brought together an extended set of stripped back, patient, wonderfully rewarding sound. Really beautiful. Some mossy earthy texture, some starlit night skies.