Room

Vinyl LP pressing. 2011 album from Electronica artist Travis Stewart AKA Machinedrum. After a break from producing, Stewart resurfaced in a major way last year with the Many Faces EP. However, for Room(s), he's well ahead of the curve, approaching recording in a way he's never done before. On the album, Stewart's productions turn the 160 BPM footwork conventions inside out, filling the usually fierce, stripped-down form with elegant, sun-kissed and impressionistic songs built from R&B, autotune and dance music history's most exuberant stabs and kicks. Like the early post-rave sounds of ambient jungle, his beautiful new kind of high-speed, detail-packed mutant pop is psychedelic, exhilarating and strangely relaxing with its fast-paced washes of synths and drums.