Sydney techno duo Trinity & Beyond first surfaced on the Melbourne-based Pinksilver label earlier this year with their debut single ‘Beyond Musique’, and now several months on this latest download-only EP collects together two new tracks alongside two remixes from Deepchild and Markojux. Opening title track ‘Gone Fission’ lays down the lush, atmospheric tech-house aesthetic that predominates here from the very start, sending crisp, clicking tech snares sliding beneath a blurred out backdrop of twinkling melodic pads and warm keys that calls to mind Silicone Soul’s precise soundscapes, or perhaps even latter-day Underworld in one of their more introspective moments. While ‘Melville Lane’ sees the duo treading similar territory, albeit with an additional sense of dry snare rattle and some heavily dubbed-out funk grooves, it’s Deepchild’s reworking of ‘Gone Fission’ that particularly caught my attention here, taking things out into nine and a half minutes of glittering, cosmically tinged deep tech-house that sends a recording of a guy discussing overcoming obstacles in his life beneath the shimmering electronics, to spectacular and quite haunting effect. Finally, it’s left to Markojux’s remix of ‘Gone Fission’ to take things off into more icy and stripped back territory, sending sub-bass dub swells lurching against a flickering backdrop of glitchy textures and slowly gathering industrial snares, with what’s easily the most headphone friendly, after hours moment on offer here. A consistently impressive EP that’s well worth exploring.
Chris Downton
