Nathan Fake is a visionary artist out of time and space. Enamoured with vintage tools (both hardware and software) and capable of producing music both club focussed and for beguiling home listening in equal measure, our man in Norwich has carved out a clearance all his own in the headier realm of the dance music world. Which is to say, who else but Nathan Fake could (or would) get Dextro AKA Ewan Mackenzie onboard, known for his ferocious drumming in Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs one of Rocket Recordings most ferocious noise rock acts, alongside Clark lending delicate sound biomes to back to back tracks of placid, cinematic ambience? The only thing more shocking is the half-speed electro funk that follows.
Suffice to say, Nathan Fake’s latest effort Evaporator is a study in thrilling eclecticism. The aforementioned ambient drifts mark the only collaborations on the board, but Fake stakes even stranger claim on his own, re-tuning Cubase software to make twisted, yet wholly functional shapes out of classic rave and trance on ‘Hypercube’ and buzzing electro on ‘Bialystok’. Wanting to achieve a platonic ideal of “airy daytime music”, even these clubbier efforts still shine brighter than the average, lending a lighter, poppier, and more autumnal glow to all of Evaporator that flows from rock-skipping wake of ‘Aiwa’ to the alien rave marathon of the closing ‘Slow Yamaha’. The Infiné label has another classic on their hands.
