Nick Stoynoff x Anthony Pappa
435 / Selcouth
SEL 211
Release date: 31/7/26

When two esteemed artists, both of whom have won a place in your musical heart through their consistent brilliance, announce a collaboration, your pulse inevitably and instinctively quickens. But it’s not a case of how good will this be; rather, how good could this be?

For every memorable meeting of musical minds unleashed into an expectant world, there is a deluge of those that didn’t make the grade locked in the vaults. Enter stage left Australia’s Electronic Music Ambassador Anthony Pappa; and Chicago’s King of the Night Nick Stoynoff…

Listener, fear not! When you press play on your sound carrier of choice (the modern equivalent of putting the needle on the record when the drumbeats go like this), we can confirm that Messrs Pappa & Stoynoff will effortlessly transport you to dancefloor nirvana. This double header is greater than the sum of its already stellar parts; your summer soundtrack has arrived.

‘435’ wears a coat of many sonic colours, knitted together expertly by our two masters. It travels from teasing intro to emotive crescendo via a series of deft detours, an electronic concept album’s worth of ideas all given room to breathe in seven and a half minutes of bliss.

‘Selcouth’ is also a thing of beauty. A broodingly hypnotic bassline paves the way for a series of ever more insistent elements, until the hypnotic arpeggiated riff kicks in and all bets are off. Cue lush breakdown and a euphoric finale and the master cratfsmen’s work here is done.

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