VOAL - JINX

1. Summoning 
2. Cross Wind
3. Jinx
4. The Chain

'Jinx' is a hypnotic techno release perfect for peak-time sets, produced by collaborative duo Voal (Shoal & Vand) on their own imprint Isotoop. The four track e.p. offers up driving rhythms and drum-heavy cuts and has found its ay into the record bags of many of the genres top DJs.

Genre: Hypnotic Techno, Deep Techno, Minimal Techno

For Fans Of: Hypnus Records, Luigi Tozzi, Donato Dozzy, Claudio PRC, Ness, Deepbass

Individually, both Shoal and Vand have been fairly prolific in the studio, with their releases gracing the catalogues of some of the most prominent deep techno labels, including Harmony Records, Alpenglühen and Planet Rhythm.

As a pair, their second release on their fledgling Isotoop label, 'Jinx', is a more club-focused e.p. which perfectly combines driving rhythms and dense percussion -  track is designed for longer transitions, which makes it perfect for longer, deeper techno sets. Notably, 'Jinx' is a marked step change in tempo and intensity when compared to their debut release, 'Saffron'. 

Notes from the Isotoop label - 

Voal — Vand and Shoal — reveal five more cuts on their home label Isotoop, taken from the pair’s time living together in Utrecht. Whereas the debut EP, ‘Saffron’, dropped the listener into psychedelic aesthetics and atypical rhythmic structures, the sequel ‘Jinx’ has a more crystal-cut vision of club music, made for no less exploratory dancefloors.

Possessing a natural progression almost as fluid as a contiguous live set, with imagination each track can form the basis of the next through the fingerprints of a barely-perceptible ghost leaving a piecemeal narrative impression, an exposure in negative that develops over repeated exposure to the five versatile tracks.

Relative to Saffron’s sidestepping repertoire, this latest EP goes for the jugular with insistent club dynamics from the get-go. Summoning steps on air, a self-contained package of breezy dancefloor initiation and escalation, all-in-one, and from the foothold of this thermal vortex Crosswind ups the drama with storm-hued dynamics and blustery club debris.

The knife of aesthetics is freshly sharpened for the flip: Jinx takes the record out of earthbound atmospheres and deep into sci-fi territory. A jigsawwing bassline seems to drill ever-deeper into an expanding landscape, as it does so uncovering small sonic treasures locked in the bedrock. A mirror to this scene, The Chain digresses with bubbling verve and psychedelic strut, a combo-finishing left hook that simultaneously holds playfulness alongside dour dramatics, a duality shared by vinyl-exclusive closing track Ouah, which blows out the lights with a smirk, and premium hallucinatory dub psychosis

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