Various – 15 Years of Butter Sessions Records (Disc One)

A new chapter in Butter Sessions’ ongoing Japanese exchange sees Sapporo sound sculptor Kuniyuki re-opening a 2015 tour collaboration with label heads Sleep D – a deep, spatial beatdown powered by dub pressure and percussive hypnosis. Shadow-lurking prodigy Mosam Howieson drops in with his trademark scatterbrain techno, while Hasvat Informant locks into joint-consciousness big-room radioactivity.

Opening the B-side, Fader Cap fuses Balearic psy-ence with Mike Dunn-esque utilitarian jack, hovering somewhere between ’80s memory and future vision. Tokyo’s Mayurashka follows with Survival Guide, big beat colliding with drug chug, before Albrecht La’Brooy reunite for a divine chill-out tent slowdown, magnifying sample detail with exacting flow. We’re adrift until Sunju Hargun lights the beacon with スカイサーファ (Sky Surfer), Thailand’s emissary of ritualistic minimal trance.