Dj Normal 4

Tim Schumacher has tasted great success under the DJ Normal 4 alias, with DJs and dancers responding positively to his trippy, rave-fired blends of vintage drum breaks, wild electronics, mind-altering rhythms and psychedelic intent. This EP on Music From Memory offshoot Second Circle is musically expansive, with the presence of bustling breakbeats and darting synth bass on exotic (and excellent) closing track "La Arabia". The central atrraction is arguably "Aeo", which comes in contrasting mixes: the floor-friendly "Rhythm Mix", with its drowsy vocal chants, feverish electronics, slipped synthesizer melodies and bustling machine drums, and the humid, beat-free tropical synth-scape that is the "Ottertasia Mix". The whole EP sounds a little like a Nacho Patrol record on hallucinatory drugs, which we think is a good thing.