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I\u2019ve picked up a number of Sengiley<\/a> records over the years. A bunch of their releases are the kind of things a DJ would bag and classify as \u201csecret weapons\u201d \u2014 records that not everybody else has or has even heard of. There\u2019s an emphasis on sound over spectacle, a deep back catalog made up of quality tracks by names I\u2019ve never seen before, or only seen on Sengiley. <\/p>\n Most of those records I\u2019ve heard have been deep house or something vaguely deep house-adjacent. This time, Sengiley Wax<\/a> (the Russian label\u2019s vinyl arm) signs Finetune<\/a> for ten tracks of eclectic electronic gems. Impulse<\/a> is the third installment in the label\u2019s \u201cRussian Series\u201d and it is experimental music in the best sense \u2014 unique, challenging for sure, but very listenable. The buzzy \u201cUFA 432\u201d begins with what sounds like a series of stringed and electronic instruments orbiting and eventually merging with the steady hum of a theremin. A quite beautiful, understated song emerges out of the process, but the process also seems to be the point. The tracks on Impulse<\/em> rarely remain constant: there\u2019s an introduction, a series of elements fall into place on a grid, but then something else happens. Constant motion is the album\u2019s chief characteristic: a steady-state is just a transition into something else. Along the way there are snippets of field recordings, ambient music and a sound palette strikingly unique and distinct from anything else I can recall. <\/p>\n Finetune is the alias of Mikhail Komisarov. Under another alias, Michael Dop, he co-founded Slowdance Records, a label constructed to satisfy his urges to circulate \u201csophisticated and interesting\u201d music. \u201cWe genuinely believe that human consciousness and outworld perception can be changed by music,\u201d reads the label copy<\/a>, and I miss the days when that was true for most everyone. It certainly applies to Impulse<\/em>. <\/p>\n