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Celebrating ten years of Daniel Avery’s seminal debut album Drone Logic, this seminal LP gets the white double vinyl repress and exclusive crystal clear double-vinyl versions.

In the world of electronic music, Daniel Avery is what we might call a rockist. He grew up on guitar music in his hometown of Bournemouth, and came to dance music relatively late. He releases on Erol Alkan's indie-friendly Phantasy Sound, his tracks make melody their chief concern, and they aren't the least bit fashionable. All of this makes him quite refreshing. His debut LP, Drone Logic, puts a neat little bow on his sudden rise to fame over the past year, and adds shades of depth to his already well-established sound. More importantly, it's a relentlessly stormy record that's too dynamic to get stale. Acid runs through Avery's veins, but he's no nostalgia peddler. Drone Logic sounds nothing like the classic Chicago or UK takes on the sound, nor does it have much in common with the contemplative version coming from the Acid Test axis. Instead, Avery fixes the squelch as a purely textural element; it adds a certain grain and edge to his ravey melodies, which repeat endlessly through filters and effects. They're simple—tracks like "Water Jump" and "Naive Response" wring out their chord progressions until you're almost sick of hearing them—but just weird enough to stay engaging. In an interview with RA, Avery expressed admiration for Paul Woolford's classic "Erotic Discourse," and much of Drone Logic has that tune's mix of the off-kilter and the easily accessible. 

An album of throbbing club tunes could easily get tedious, but Avery's productions are lithe enough that it flies by in a flurry of twangy synths and pounding drums. And just when it begins to feel like you've spent too long in his sweaty basement (somewhere around track nine). The closing three tunes are luminescent anthems that take a page out of The Field's playbook. He closes with "Knowing We’ll Be Here," which is chock full of shoegaze textures and guitar. It's an emotive finale you might not have predicted from his past releases or even the first half of the LP, leaving Drone Logic as a nicely well-rounded debut album from an artist who's only been releasing music for a couple of years. — via Resident Advisor

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Label: Phantasy Sound, Because Music
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, 10th Anniversary
Reissued: 2023 / Original Release: 2013
Genre: Electronic
Style: Acid, Acid House, Tech House, Techno, Dark Ambient

File under: House / Electro / Techno
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