Let's get one thing out of the way immediately: Matthew Dear is a freakishly talented musician. Whether it's under his own name, as Audion or any of the other alias he releases music under, his production is simultaneously deep, danceable, and, perhaps the most elusive when operating within electronica’s confines, musical. He often lends his own voice to his production, without ever crossing into gratuitous, Green Velvet-territory. And he has also found success touring with two bandmates as Matthew Dear's Big Hands, fusing his soulful minimalist vibe with a live aesthetic. In Body Language Vol. 7, the latest release with Dear's name attached to it, it's the man's DJ skills that are on full display. Subtle, complex, full of lusciously funky minimalist texture, this mix has it all. It’s not a peaks-and-valleys mix. It doesn't build to any overwrought crescendo. What it does is offer a silky palette of outrageously solid tracks mixed together with such alarming fluidity that even

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