Prolific New York-based producer Brendon Moeller has a 6-track set ready and up for preorder with ESP Institute, titled Blue Moon. The pieces take Moeller’s trademark dub techno textures and float them over broken beats. While the rhythms are boisterous they’re not floor-rocking, but somehow, instead augment an incredibly chilled flow. The fragmented, fidgeting kicks creating currents that carry a soothing swirling, warm vapour of sustained notes, resonance, reverb and drone. Skipping, samba-like shuffling, without breaking the sense of blissed-out serene. The syncopation showing off gentle jazzy gestures in places, like a deconstruction of drum & bass. Dropping serious subs and joining the dots to big back-in-the-day moments like a distant descendant of PFM’s One & Only. Scratching the album’s surface, it may seem pretty static, minimal. However, a deeper listen reveals an ocean of submerged, aquatic sonics that’s deceptively rich in tiny detail. Scurrying sound effects, trickling tones and fractured, treated keys. Percussion that cracks like echoed thunder claps. Its aural aura shimmers and glows. The music sorta simultaneously moving and standing still. Its subtle shifting something that the stoned will surely get peacefully, pleasurably lost in.

Brendon Moeller’s Blue Moon can be ordered directly from ESP Institute.