4 out of 5

Label: Emotec

Produced by: ?

The chameleonic MOY has, as per that adjective, proven able to shift their style to match whichever label is doing the releasing. Not especially unusual for most prolific electro artists, but the ones that hold my attention manage to keep their identity throughout. Traveling back to earlier in MOY’s career, the formation of that identity – a focus on melody; on generally uplifting beats – is clear, with Orbital Resonance putting together four acid grooves that go warm and heavy with their beats.

Opener Dream Coast sets the tone pretty much in name alone; simple synths hang over a head-swaying beat, acid twitches giving the track shape as MOY plays with each of those components, stringing us along casually but compellingly. Wheel Of Time is different enough, but the most streamlined and repetitive of the offerings here, pleasant if bloated to fill out runtime.

On the flipside, a bit more darkness and some breaks set the standard again: both tracks here are solid, and instantly grabbing, with the production really working to mix everything rather cooly – it’s very sleek – but with enough 3Dness to give the futurism echoes an analog-y warmth.

Casual Warp-style groove is anted up with, perhaps paradoxically, a very casual – but controlled – sound, forming a backbone for MOY’s style that’s proven very flexible on later releases.