Reclaim Your City 709 | Wala

Belgian up-and-comer Wala punches in this week with two hours of elegantly stripped-back techno grooves and velveteen atmospheres. Clad in soft, fuzzy envelopes, his music summons the finest of immersive Basic Channel-ian dubs and sensual Detroit house churners, dishing out cinematic sequences rife with minimal, reverb-soaked drifters and slices of deep-diving, hypnagogic abstraction. Emotional and articulate, his sonics fuse the elegance of classic, progressive 90s rollers with the future-proof vision of state-of-the-art electronic research - evolving at the fringe of full-fledged floor-busting potentiality and skirting the conceptual, off-kilter side of house and techno that keeps the scene afresh with a renewed - and much needed - call for undomesticated innovation and self-affirming gravitas. Surgical.