Thematically and sonically, the title Maintain Coming Again for Baltra’s beautiful new EP is completely fitted to what we’re welcome to.
The U.S.-based digital producer Baltra possesses a sound that repeatedly retains listeners guessing as he seamlessly drifts between breakbeat, UK Storage, disco, lofi home, acid home, and extra. On the opening observe of his new physique of labor nevertheless, we see a slight return to his lofi home roots as this listening expertise mirrors the sounds of previous works like Can’t Clarify It EP. This has us consuming from the waters of nostalgia as we’re satiated with crunchy drums and heat, fuzzy pads floating over the stereofield. I can’t neglect to say the groovy bass line; its presence pulls us towards the dance ground and is the driving power of the observe’s vitality.
The timing of that is fairly becoming contemplating that Baltra is at the moment on an EU tour with EELF – a platform for home music that championed the lofi motion earlier than and through its prime. This previous Saturday, I occurred to listen to “Maintain Coming Again” throughout his set in Hamburg, and listening to it wash over the gang actually created an emotive second on the dance ground. Under, I’ve dropped the tour dates in case you’re in any of the cities:
