Tarquin Manek

Bat Circles And Dives

Genre: ELECTRONIC

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Boomkat Product Review:

Pivotal Aussie hyper-connector Tarquin Manek - a prolific if somewhat elusive character who has been involved with innumerable projects of interest, from his debut for Blackest Ever Black in 2015 to productions with Carla Dal Forno, CS+Kreme and YL Hooi, as part of F Ingers, Tarcar and the wonderful Kallista Kult, not to mention his own work as M. Quake, Static Cleaner Lost Reward and so many other avatars - lands on Berceuse Heroique with a supremely bezonked, 90 minute session of subaquatic dub-pop zoners x low-lit mood music, tipped if yr into any of the many aforementioned, or classic BEB/Low Company, Laila Sakini, The Skaters, Swell Maps, Jac Berrocal and beyond.

Manek’s credentials as a consummate, wide-eared listener with the ability to join and smudge lines and dots across new and bygone worlds is already well established, you could probably populate an entire mixtape series based solely off his productions. His ‘Bat Circles and Dives’ mixtape links the various ends of his thing in a zig-zagging night flight worthy of the title, flickering across the imagination between skull-rub ambient, arcane new age audities, lo-fi domestic rustles and baroque pop with a persistent guess-again quality he does so, so well.

He brings a naturally deep and cross-cultural approach to his picks here; the A-side is defined by gauzy textural and spirit-piquing aspects of red-eyed zoners and Flying Nun jangles, into spiritual jazz vapours, downbeat ruminations and synthy wormholes, while the B-side flows deep into the unknown with Klezmer and Roma-style eastern European folk and jazz, raï, and chaabi flavours that dance on the mind’s tongue.

Trust, we’re already chasing numerous ID’s.

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