Machinegewehr – Life

Under his Machinegewehr guise, Rotterdam’s finest, Silas Schletterer, has released a smattering of show-stopping synth-oriented EPs, blowing his many contemporaries in the style out of the park. Life now comes as his fourth album in the style, incorporating cleverly inviting melodies, clean percussion and samples, all to make up a definite dancefloor favourite. The pulsations, the throb, of Machinegewehr persists as ever, but there is a considered melancholy that brings a bittersweet balance to pieces such as ‘Life’, which emphasise the melodic, hazier side of Machinegewehr’s sound over its more hard-hitting parts . A welcome return from a multifaceted musician.