Aconito Records was born from a passage in Ovid's Metamorphosis; its founder Andrea Ruffino, operating as nAX_Acid, naming the label after the mythological aconite plant that in Ovid's telling grew from the foam of Cerberus as he was dragged from the underworld by Hercules.

It is a fitting origin story for a label that has spent nearly two decades releasing music that operates in the shadowy territory between deep techno, atmospheric electronica, and ambient darkness; with past catalogue contributions from Deepbass, Giorgio Gigli, Claudio PRC, and Etapp Kyle among others.

Ruffino moved from Italy to London in 2005, releasing his debut production the following year on the Kompakt-connected imprint disappear here before launching Aconito and beginning a long creative partnership with fellow producer Ben-Ur (Ruben Zambon) that has yielded some of the label's most distinctive material. We have previously featured the pair's Origin Unknown single and nAX_Acid's Waveform Sessions #1 mix.

Creatures from the Moon is the latest chapter in the label's digital series, and it launches with Psychopomp. The production typifies a nAX_Acid/Ben-Ur release; forward momentum is always the backbone of their techno, and this opening composition delivers that driving momentum by the freighter-load, alongside a characteristically healthy serving of acid.

Googling the term Ypnorospo delivers search results based around, unexpectedly, Futurama’s Hypnotoad. Whether this is an intentional play on words we don’t know, although the second track on the EP is certainly hypnotic. From the off, we have a superb arpeggiating synth that plays throughout the track, underpinning propulsive percussion and a hulking bassline.

Rounding us out on Kadath (Lovecraft fans take note). The earthly home of the dream gods in Lovecraftian lore, the track after which it is names adopts a similar phantasmagorical tone, with a kinetic acid bassline accompanying some truly supernatural synth shrieks.

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