When Matt Karmil’s music comes on in a club, everything around you slows to a crawl, and you focus on that one tiny detail – a bouncing earring or a frozen smile, the lights flashing through the smoke as slow as a distant lighthouse – before it all comes zooming back and everything’s jumping at normal speed again. Karmil’s fourth album, Will, is released on the Norwegian Smalltown Supersound label – the home of Lindstr?m among others. Even more than before Matt has managed to combine his love of the graceful forward motion of minimal techno beats with the deeply granular textures and meditative chambers of reverb and delay. Mastered by the careful hand of Rashad Becker at the legendary Dubplates and Mastering plant, this driverless vehicle takes bumps and curves with ease, but passes through enough scuzzy neighbourhoods to make the journey more memorable. Matt Karmil is British born – growing up in the rural town of Salisbury, near Stonehenge. You can definitely hear the influence of Kompakt founder Wolfgang Voigt on Will – specifically the Gas project’s melding of billowy sound clouds and insistently pulsing 4/4 beats.
