During the COVID-19 pandemic, highly respected Parisian producers / DJs / diggers Joakim and Alexis Le Tan got together under the alias Full Circle. Via Australian label Good Morning Tapes they released a series of cassettes, and a couple of cracking vinyl artefacts, which contained what the pair called “patchworks”. These were cannily constructed creations containing craftily sourced samples that took inspiration from 90s Goan trance, itself a Balearic Beat-adjacent blend of synth pop, new beat, Italo and  EBM. Pretty much exactly 3 years since the last instalment, and the end of that particular global crisis, the duo have now delivered a trio of tracks on a 12 titled Beyond Knowhere. 

Starting with the slowest number, Sharp Water, we’re treated to tablas, trickling, processed vocals and dramatic synth fanfares / klaxon rave riffs. Its B-line is a repro of something super familiar and its kick chugs, sonic shuffles, around 101 BPM. Busy with bells, and spooky, unsettling spoken snippets, timbales rattle and the result recalls Andrew Weatherall spinning circa 1990 / 91. 

Painting Noise takes a B-boy break and a bubbling bass loop, adds Ringo Star and some cool psyche organ. Melodic monastic moaning – either Dominican or Gregorian – mixes with boiling TB-303,. Wild winds whistling the whole way through. 

The highlight, however, is Odd Perceptions, a trance dance of tribal percussion and breakbeat-like programming, introduced by the drones of traditional strings and reeds. Sitars and Psychic TV’s Tibetan thighbone trumpets. An ethereal siren counters snatches of Tuvan throat singing. Caught up in a Chris & Cosey-esque Pagan Tango. Like `80s acts Monsoon meeting Torch Song, or Rude Audio remixing ddwy, if you’re after a more recent reference. 

I think Boomkat is the only place that currently has copies.