Released Dec 16th 2022

12" Vinyl: mathisruffing.bandcamp.com/album/skybox

Mathis Ruffing’s Transatlantic debut cuts to the chase. This is getaway music, music designed to vaporise your long-dormant adrenal glands. ‘Skybox’ is made up of tracks that surge like quicksilver through veins, pulsing, flexing, relentlessly disciplined in execution. These tunes are crystalline and shimmering, eight sleek and streamlined club constructs rendered with what feels like the precision-engineering of some advanced alien DAW.

Opener ‘Ultranova’ hits like a cyborgian headbutt and refuses to let up. It’s followed by the one-two punch of the title track and ‘Hitherto’, which install cooling, gaseous pads and synths within breakneck drum&bassian exoskeletons. ‘Crater Edge’ and closer ‘Raytraced’ offer cryochamberesque respite from the cold-blooded fury enclosed within this release — well-earned breathing room in an album that takes hold with crisp and calculated force. Pure focus.

Music by Mathis Ruffing
Artwork by Bruno Lauzon Tanzi @lcl_stream
Mastered by Ax Emblem f.k.a Cellvl
Text by Madjestic Kasual
Pressed at R.A.N.D. Muzik
Distributed by Inch_by_Inch

Mathis Ruffing  - 'Skybox'

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