Martyn

Masks / Viper' is the first single from the Ghost People album, a taste into what’s to come with Martyn’s new – and, naturally, unexpected – sonic direction. Check!
The A-side, “Masks”, builds a spacey, sci-fi terrain, with a sharp 4/4 groove and metallic, hypnotic chromatics. Melodies sit on top of each other, winding upwards to become the ultimate soundtrack for walking through the hallway between Berghain and Panoramabar, exploring from one room to the other. Dark and fringed with a rough edge, “Viper”, as Martyn puts it, is “a beatless exercise in the sound that made Metalheadz.” “Viper (London Arches Edit)” brings the feel of a gloomy dark tunnel: imagine cycling past the doors of Cable in London Bridge on a shadowy Monday night.

• 1 Masks
• 2 Viper (Ghost People edit)
• 3 Viper (Londons Archers edit)