Cover art for Losoul's 'Broken English Dubs' on Logistic Records: a photograph inside a corner shop, three young men in front of shelves of crisps and snacks behind a chiller of bottles, one in denim and shearling, one in a black jacket and cap, one in a yellow and black puffer, with a navy record label circle laid over the centre carrying the artist name and title.

Losoul is Peter Kremeier, and 'Open Door' put him on Playhouse in 1996. More than twenty records followed on that label. Three of them were albums. Before any of it he was running the Superbleep parties in Frankfurt with S-Max.

His own line on how it works is that "atmosphere is often in the space between the sounds". The title of the new one comes from the idea of broken English as a universal language. Six tracks on Logistic Records, who work out of Paris and run Telegraph Records alongside it. His last album went out on Hypercolour in 2018.

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The album is definitive of what minimal house should be and do. That being to craft music using only a few elements, and to do it in a way that still holds the listener’s engagement as they pick out micro-shifts in the mood and texture of the track.

The arpeggiating 303 that crystalises within the first few bars of opening composition ‘Shake 3’ offer the perfect accompaniment to the almost… crunchy house percussion. That acid line oscillates throughout, changing its pattern occasionally to keep the energy bubblin’.

Next onto the lurching hypnotism of ‘Cult Rodeo’. Losoul build the track on a pattern of supplicative clapping and vocal interspersions that glitch and echo in and out of the track in a most discombobulating fashion. Wait for the awesome “hey kids, what time is it?” breakdown that lasts almost two minutes!

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The album takes a swerve into the leftfield next with ‘No Jacks Given’, in which we are instructed, somewhat aggressively, to give the vocalist back their jacks. Erm, no, we’re using them at the moment. You can have them back in approximately nine minutes after the super-bumpy-bumpy second half.

We’re trippin’ with the next superbly styled heater on the record, ‘Some Pals Were Sleepers’. You only need to hear the first throb of the bassline in this track and you’ll be hooked. This is our pick of the bunch… so nice.

A jazzy number takes up penultimate position. Shuffling drums sit underneath a crudely distorted sample that is being jockeyed to within a hairs breadth of oblivion in ‘The Peek-A-Boo Scratch’ next. Brilliant.

We close on an up-tempo production with the 9.5 minute ‘Trap Back’. The track follows a dubby aesthetic, as samples echo and fade in and out. Take a fat hit, close your eyes, and let the music control your mind and body like the artist intended.

Digital and a limited double twelve, both over at Logistic Records. Get yours.