Skee Mask

2018's Compro was one of my favorite electronic albums of the 2010's. Superb mix of dancefloor breakbeats and ambient techno.

He has a new album out called Pool. On first listen, it strikes a similar balance to Compro. Great subs and beats throughout, but it's the more organic ambient textures that make it feel special.

https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp09-skee-mask-pool

Philip Sherburne write-up at P4k:

Where Skee Mask’s last EPs split his output between rhythm and atmosphere, Pool brings those elements back together. Müller continues to work with the types of sounds that have animated his work from the beginning: scabrous breaks and clean-lined 808s, seismic subs and airy pads, smoldering overdrive and dub delay. In the past, Skee Mask’s genre experiments have sometimes felt like he was checking various styles off a list, but Pool shows his work becoming more holistic, moving toward a kind of ur-dance music—as though the disparate continents of drum’n’bass, footwork, techno, electro, and downbeat were all merging back together into a spongy musical Pangaea. Twisting acid sequences give otherwise gentle ambient tracks a steely edge; funk basslines wriggle worm-like through drum’n’bass grooves; rugged jungle breaks and ambient dub flicker like two sides of a lenticular image.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/skee-mask-pool/

i missed compro but big fan of pool. lots of good stuff on there.

New record released last week
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp19-resort

looove "Waldmeister." He has such a unique virtuosity when it comes to balancing techno and ambient.

new record is soooooooooooo amazing

Gotta check this out, thanks for the reminder

'terminal z' might be his best song yet

Yeah it's his best since Compro. Much more downtempo and immersive

Planning to vote for Resort but ISSO10 is making me second guess myself.

This one's for the dancefloor, not the bedroom. Thumping, four on the floor jams that sound incredible.