Hermione Hoby 

Machinedrum: Vapor City – review

US producer Travis Stewart's jungle-meets-juke makes up for occasional longueurs with some excellent dance tracks, writes Hermione Hoby
  
  


Machinedrum is one of the many recording aliases of North Carolina-born, Berlin-resident beat obsessive Travis Stewart, a prodigious 31-year-old producer whose recent work has been characterised by a splicing of 90s jungle and contemporary juke, or Chicago house. Here, it makes for tracks that, more often than not, are the kind to dutifully admire and find interesting, rather than lose yourself to on a dancefloor – much of this record sags with chill-out longueurs. But, when those two qualities do come together, as on the penultimate Eyesdontlie, it's formidably tight and focused and it makes for dance music to please the brain as well as the body.

 

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