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Cubenx 'Fractal City' (Infiné)
The Parisian label Infiné is consistently a mark of sheer class. Whether it’s putting out club tracks, Middle Eastern sounds or modern compositions, it always specialises in subtlety and tracks that don’t immediately give their secrets away. This second album for the label from Mexican producer Cubenx certainly doesn’t: broadly ambient with orchestral touches and the occasional throb of fierce techno, ‘Fractal City’ is very dark, very futuristic anwd very, very grown-up. Its moodiness and reticence make it uneasy listening, but it’s also strangely compelling, too. It would be the perfect soundtrack to a baffling but beautiful sci-fi thriller – in fact, the more we listen to it, the more we want to see that film. Joe Muggs
