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  • Summary: This is the second full-length release for Berlin-based electronic DJ/producer James Whipple.
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  1. Jan 4, 2018
    82
    Other M.E.S.H. records--including his 2015 debut LP, Piteous Gate--were narrow beam; Hesaitix is the full spectrum.
  2. The Wire
    Jan 4, 2018
    80
    A cohesive album in the traditional sense, Hesaitix is an epic world-building exercise littered with simulations of natural beauty. [Dec 2017, p.55]
  3. Jan 4, 2018
    80
    In this transition from experimental noise that revels in randomness and discomfort, the album layers sound into intense, hypnotic rhythms that reveal compositional prowess.
  4. Jan 4, 2018
    76
    Rooted somewhere in the corporeal fantasies that have always propelled dance music, Hesaitix unravels an imaginary realm that feels genuinely new in form.
  5. Jan 4, 2018
    70
    Even if Piteous Gate was more abrasive overall, Hesaitix ends up being more challenging, never giving away any easy answers and causing the listener to listen deeper.