Review: Loxodrome - More Alive EP (Cyphon Recordings)

Regular readers will recognise the name Loxodrome and Jamie Odell (aka Jimpster) as one of the same (and many more) so you'll be excited to hear of 'More Alive' EP. 
 

So there was 30 years between 1994's 'The Loxodrome' EP and the follow-up, 'Drop Out' EP (see review HERE) that came out on Cyphon Recordings.  

Having a love of early electronic out of Detroit, of course, there's a revival of early "acid droppin' tech house" as it's never gone away with the durability of originals like Jeff Mills, Kirk Degiorgio (he of 'Ellate' - see review HERE) and upstarts like Infinity Plus One ('Reflexion' see review HERE) plus the emergence of 808/303 emulators. 

Less "Balearic Peech Bros, NYC than the previous EP", if your thinking this sounds like "Gobbleygook", head straight for the track called 'Gobbleygook' for deep scenic wobble board dance.  He's seemingly got a feel for this as the EP ends on another, this time called 'Rubbery Duck' - not to be found in Gerrard Street I hope.

'Call Me' is more jazz-funk tinged rain forest 'Jimpster' and 'More Alive' kicks off with proper movin-on train warp with spoken word a la Kameelah Waheed; whilst in reality it's Aurora Devereux who "delivers an otherworldly spoken word vocal".  

As a follow-on from the Jimpster remix this week on Session Victim's 'Side Quests - Chapter Two' EP (see reveiw HERE), Cyphon Recordings continue to keep their releases firmly on the dancefloor and this is another killer that's more alive.

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Artist: Loxodrome 
Title: More Alive EP
Release date: 26th September, 2025
Label: Cyphon
Catalog Number  CYP18
Format: Digital / Bandcamp

Review: Loxodrome - Drop Out EP (Cyphon Recordings)

Well, you might not recognise the name Loxodrome, (possibly for good reason) but you'll know Jamie Odell (aka Loxodrome, Jimpster and many more) who released the original 'The Loxodrome EP' in 1994! Here's the follow up!

You'd have thought Jimpster would have enough work on his keyboards with running labels Freerange and Delusions Of Grandeur along with DJing and seemingly endless quality remixes to have the time to slip back 30 years to check out some acid droppin' tech house?  Well he has and it's as hot now as it was with the emergence of 303 emulators. 

The title track is quite jumpy and eye-2-eye contact dancefloor warped and mixed with some Star Trek-ed flight command star date time to "tune in and drop out" in a club way, not a Timothy Leary's '66 revival way. 

The last track, 'Fornax A' sneaks onto a Balearic Peech Bros, NYC seashore which you might have to save for next summer but the meat (vegan options are available) of the EP is 'Emberfall' and 'Emberfall (Dub)' which has elements of 'Drop Out' and 'Fornax A' that creates something bigger than the knob twiddling parts.

Cyphon Recordings have also released artists like Kirk Degiorgio (As One), DJ Rocca, Yuu Udagawa (she of the recent Compost remix releases 'Ride it'/'Set Me Sneakers' - see review HERE) and the Odell/Loxodrome is definitely going to give them an even higher profile.

Artist: Loxodrome 
Title: Drop Out EP 
Release date: 8th November, 2024
Label: Cyphon
Catalog Number  -
Format: Digital / Bandcamp