Jim Coles and Andreas Tilliander, aka Om Unit and TM404, team-up for an LP where the opening track, Motorway Acid, will transport older listeners right back to the early 1990s. Its TB-303 flexing over a familiar breakbeat. Microdose Mondays is also flashback-inducing. This time to the chillout room, rather than the rave itself. An intoxicating “IDM” homage, whose funky fractals provide a calming balm for lysergic-ally lifted heads. Its hypnotising harmonies set to engage, but soothe overstimulated / fevered imaginations. 

The broken rhythm of the bubbling and gurgling, London Stock tames what would otherwise be tearaway techno. Meanwhile… In The Smoking Area is seriously stoned. Wobbling, warbling, a perfect soundtrack for walking on the moon. Psychedelically soaked, and slowly trodding through similar sonic terrain as Recondite’s more downtempo moments, this segues into the equally slo-mo Thursday. A bit of grainy and granular gear, like a Basic Channel re-shape, with growling seismic subs – plus the odd loon bird. 

On Refracted, Roland’s wonderful little silver box is washed in waves of debris and delay. The results like UR / The Martian’s Red Planet jams heard in the distance, as if from a galaxy far, far away. The closing Praha’s cool chords, serene sustained notes, are almost modal. Its percussion rattling, loosely, like surf on some alien shore. The acid in this case is a racing but super loved-up lick. The keys and deep dubwise detail completing its sexy, soft-focus trip. 

Om Unit + TM404’s In The Afterworld is out now on Acid Test.