Sex

London’s Slugabed has an uncanny knack for braiding vintage electronic music’s tones and textures with contemporary innovation, making music that’s both studied and simple enough to soundtrack a good party. His 2012 *Sex* EP opens with the title track, which oozes suave seduction, trimmed in organic snare-based beats, big wonky bass, and the kind of retro keyboard wizardry that could well accompany a \'70s film. In the following \"Molecules,\" Slugabed’s vintage synth manipulation treads territories previously occupied by both the prog and krautrock genres. Here, a minimal approach is taken with the sporadic rhythms to sound like a cutup edit. The result is a nice juxtaposition of keyboard intricacies that stutter and float over herky-jerky beats. Los Angeles producer Daedelus delivers a radiant remix of “Sex” that renders the original barely recognizable. With everything pitched down, he injects skittering beats and slathers the backdrop with tons of echo, making for a more spacy and sultry composition. Glitch-hop luminary Groundislava’s remix closes, sounding like two videogames making out in a hot tub.