Zero-Point Field EP

Bright Sounds welcomes prolific Dutch artist Boris Bunnik for a new EP under his best-known alias, Conforce. The regular Delsin artist keeps this project for his more dancefloor-driven work, and that holds across all four atmospheric tracks here.

"Virtue Signalling" is slick techno that mixes sci-fi sounds with cavernous dub pads, cerebral and cinematic but driven by rubbery drums. "Black Mesa" is darker, its synth line coming in spurts over punchy, broken drums. On the flip, "Compulsion" is more watery, with little life forms suspended above slippery drums, while "Alka" is another underwater affair, a dubbed-out groove undulating way down deep.