Audiopile Review: Double shot in this week from Snaker, the Japanese imprint that first caught our attention in 2016 with their set for Mood Hut, which saw pretty much the whole MH crew come through for the wildly varied LP. Dormant for the past half decade, they waste no time with these two new ones, both aiming to achieve Snaker’s fairly loose take on contemporary “library”. Well, if you’re a film director looking to score your subterranean cyber-punk epic, then Odopt might be worth hunting down. Landing somewhere in the netherworld between EBM, techno and dark ambient, it’s the perfect soundtrack for a creep through rain-soaked alleys while unmarked helicopters buzz overhead, one full of rhythmic twists and turns and a sharp sense for the dramatic. Flipping to a completely different vibe is the collab between two relative newcomers, KOOLMFL and Sonic Weapon, both connected to Powder’s Thinner Groove imprint. With a bag of scattershot samples, the duo work their way through Mo-Wax-y beats, sun-soaked jazz loops or screwed funk minimalism, the drum breaks cued just off centre in the most deliriously warbled and sideways bend. Wildly addictive. Both very limited.

First release in 5years by Snaker, and the catalog counts 11nd.

This title features a joint work release by 2 artists, KOOLMFL and Sonic Weapon who also been busy with their releases on Powder’s Thinner Groove label. Their approach to express “Contemporary library sound” was to experiment with various way to create funky collages,  Trippy beats, groovy or anti-groovy loop arts, and fragments of noise and scratch. The sound is going everywhere but consistent as a sound library to Get On Down.