Fantastic Twins steps into Kompakt’s Speicher series

The Fantastic Twins project grew out of stacking vocal layers and multiplying herself through delays and timing – what she’s described as “a dialogue between two halves of my brain happening in the music.” Her influences run from Philip Glass and Detroit techno through to Throbbing Gristle, Coil and Alice Coltrane; an artist who has never had much interest in genres as a concept, only in whether something has an edge.

“It’s been on my wishlist for a while that the incredibly talented Julienne Dessagne does a techno EP for us,” says Kompakt’s Michael Mayer. Three tracks, all doing something slightly different, all unmistakably hers.

Opener “False Index” is stripped back to skeletal rhythm while a synth pattern helixes overhead, crinkling and warping, Dessagne’s Sprechstimme floating detached above it all. “New Systems” goes deeper – long, lush drones punctured by sonar bleeps. Then “Uninhibited” lands a vocal hook that stays with you, glitch-work rising from below while tones cascade from above.

Speicher 139 is out now on Kompakt. Stream and purchase