Duncan Stump under his Coral D alias presents two cassette halves of the slinkiest echoes this side of Rhythm & Sound--sequenced up for your listening pleasure.

As Paul/Apiento wrote in introducing Duncan's mix for TP back in 2023, Coral D has quite a run of brilliant tracks that shows no sign of letting up. Each 12" (er, FLAC--can we take up a collection to get some of these pressed?) has been an immaculately produced slab of dance music. You may think the "down to the sea and back" sample is played out but then you haven't heard it layered over Duncan's warm uptempo acid-laced groove--last year's "Boom Alarme". "Alright" has that private press beat vibe but cut with a sparkling keyboard line recalling top shelf vaporwave.

On to the record at hand, presented as "archive material" from 2018-2024. Is it a summation, a victory lap? A tour de force of genres? All that for sure, but at the end of the day it's just fabulous moody business hitting your walkman just as the winter is finally sloughing off. Side A opens with a sweet minimal boom bap that gives way to atmospheric dubby business. Things get moodier and melodic before collapsing into atmospherics and piano then closing out with some mid–tempo echo.

Side B starts disarmingly with a stretched out vocal sample then into a spacey tech groove, going all lo-fi for a bit and then finishing on a bit of slinkiness that recalls the glory days of Force Tracks. A head trip of the finest order. Essential.

Coral D's Mad Regrets #11 is out now on BANDCAMP and is already sold out but he may do more! Who knows...