Shine Grooves

Shine Grooves

Sequences For Fluttering

Not Not Fun

The latest by Yekaterinburg producer Andrey Kurokhtin aka Shine Grooves offers an expansive panorama of the project’s arrhythmic depths and ambient outer limits, beyond the skillful dub techno for which he’s best known. Sequences For Fluttering collects 14 tracks across nearly a decade of home recordings, threading a 54-minute voyage through synthetic woodwinds, cosmic electronica, ASMR breakbeat, new age glitch, and glassy orchestral abstractions. Taken as a whole, the album effectively demonstrates the subcurrents of the SG soundworld: flickering texture, fractal kinetics, strange yearning, sun-flared haze. An immersive suite of oblique energies and melodies, untethered to notions of dance floor intentionality, let loose to unspool, take flight, and flutter.

Shine Grooves

Watching The Breeze

100% Silk

Yekaterinburg musician Andrey Kurokhtin operates in intertwined capacities – producer, engineer, synth and drum machine technician, label boss (of hand-stamped “non-commercial music” imprint Hanagasumi), electronica shopkeeper – but his passions collide in the microcosmic reveries of Shine Grooves. Watching The Breeze collects 13 cuts composed across a decade of activity for an expansive portrait of the project’s signature chemistry of minimalist rhythms and whispered emotion. Woozy, windswept, and flecked with grit, the tracks zoom in and out of delicate flux, triangulating liquid acid, deprivation chamber house, and the outer reaches of dub techno. Hints of Kompakt, Basic Channel, and glitched radio transmissions flicker in its ether, but ultimately WTB maps a groove shinier and more scattered, lost blossoms from a life behind the lights, attuned to the invisible.