Sindri and Otto Von Schirach / Plastiq Phantom People
Sduisant Lollipop / Swimming Is Great If You Aren't Drowning

An excellent split, this rare 7'' on Imputor Records.

The A-side features Otto Von Schirach and fellow musician Sandra Castillo tackling an experimental hip hop supported by cheerful accordion melodies and playful synths, accompanying a much more fierce absolute delirium of ramshackle, deconstructed, and utterly insane rhythms, where devastating kicks, vortex basses, and digital masturbations easily attributable to the Miami genius reign supreme; in my opinion, one of the best tracks he's ever produced, as well as one of the very few containing a 'true' melody - presumably a product of Sindri - aligning with the Imputor philosophy, a label that seeks to combine DSP experimentation with the most human possible melodic touch.

Not bad is the B-side entrusted to the Plastiq Phantom People, an instrumental collage showcasing gypsy-influenced violins, Middle Eastern tribalism, echoes of Turkish classical music, xylophones, and broken-breaks close to the Ninja Tune sound, more precisely to early 2000s Tobin; it's a good track, but needless to say how it takes a back seat compared to the usual stroke of genius marked OVS, who for the occasion creates a hip hop/glitch/idm hybrid with a zany edge, which would be at the center of the much more celebrated proposal of friends Modeselektor a few years later.

Unfailing.