Horvitz also steps out with a solo EP for Orac that goes by the rather inexplicable title Elephant and Obelisk. His Sutekh material is often high-strung and “Unstern” matches the template with a jittery groove that seems to get ever more squirrelly with each passing moment. Move aside when gobbling synth bombs balloon and explode, strafing the crime scene with acid fire. Like Stockhausen infiltrating IRCAM, “Unstern” then gets a brief, sputtering reprise as an electronics-only space walk. On the B side, Horvitz gets his acid-funk freak on with the bass-burbling strutter “Zuur” before broken beats take “Ubu Rex” for a stutter-funk spin that, with a slight arm-wrestle or two, could become dubstep. Though the release is a mere sixteen minutes in duration, there’s still enough here to showcase Horvitz’s inimitable talent for tech-house invention.

–Ron Schepper, textura

San Francisco’s Seth Horovitz has been turning out top quality electronic productions for a good ten years or so, and true to form this latest 12” for Orac has as much to do with keeping your grey cells occupied as it does your dancing feet. After a meticulously assembled slab of microhouse tomfoolery in the shape of ‘Unstern’ you get treated to the reprise of the same track, awash in layers of synthetic atmosphere and queasy synths. The B-side features another dancefloor production, ‘Zuur’, before finishing up with ‘Ubu Rex’, where Horovitz approximates a skewed, android revision of dubstep, dishing out futurist broken beat constructions.
–Boomkat