Sascha Funke MZ

Stream, Download, Buy Vinyl: Berlins Sascha Funke weighs in with a hardhitting new fourtracker for Tigas label. Hot off his comeback on Multi Culti, this latest EP for Turbo Recordings takes the hypnotic, progressive vibe and drives it a little bit harder, leaning into every snare with precise power, carefully administering tension over the duration of professionallypaced arrangements. Titletrack IFA, already a weapon in the crates of Funkefriends like Rebolledo, Michael Mayer and Tiga, sounds like the kind of peaktime party power you d expect those dudes to pull out in the darker hours of their deepest sets, when the soundtrack calls for more than basic, visceral limbpumping, but full disorientation, actual mindlosing. Robur rolls out of that space with minimalistictribalism, sounding like a mental apocalyptic march, pushing forward with intractable force, an energy which eventually relents on MZ, opening up dramatically with an epic chord progression that blooms