- Inkjet / Fluo is an intriguing triple-threat: the quietly excellent Beatrice Dillon teaming up with Joe Seaton, AKA Call Super, on one of club music's most visionary labels, Hessle Audio. Individually, all three parties are bold and unpredictable, guided by an urge to be not just good but strikingly original. The tracks on this EP would reflect the tastes of everyone involved—not just Dillon and Seaton, but also Ben UFO, Pangaea and Pearson Sound, who curate Hessle Audio together. What would such a record sound like? The result feels like a common denominator of its creators' styles more than a fresh hybrid of them. It presents two elegant club tracks, a bit safe maybe, but only by these artists' adventurous standards.
"Inkjet" is a syncopated beat track, bouncy enough to hold your attention for eight minutes, and brought to life by otherworldly textures. It's hard to say who did what on this record, but that glitchy rush in the breakdown feels like Dillon's style of sound design. "Fluo" is more dynamic. For the first few minutes, somber keys float through light percussive loops, a crisp and sparing arrangement that calls to mind Jan Jelinek or Ricardo Villalobos. When a 4/4 pulse appears halfway through, the drifting track falls into a sleek house groove. This one, too, is rich in texture, with groaning woodwinds that play nicely off the otherwise crystalline electronics. That bit's got Seaton, and possibly his dad, written all over it. Both artists have been more dazzling than this before—Dillon on her excellent 12-inches on Alien Jams and Boomkat Editions, Seaton on last year's Call Super EPs—but they have never been so groovy.