zuli: numbers

Egyptian producer Ahmed El Ghazoly makes a stunning second mark on Lee Gamble's UIQ label with Numbers. The six tracks experiment with tessellating dry and fluid textures. The dusty, humid London-via-Cairo swerve of "Bow" goes into the metastable techno momentum of "CommProto". "She's Hearing Voices" feels like a smoking area between rooms, heard in a queasy but spangled state. The chromatic trance warp of "What You Do" convulses into action, followed by its grubbing Autechrian inversion, "Tongue Chomper", only to slide off the page into the melted dancehall of "Foam Home".