Per Hammar

Per Hammar returns to his own Dirty Hands imprint with Ontario, a four-track excursion into stripped dub techno and acid-leaning tech house. These are groove tools first - minimal, functional, built for the floor rather than the headphone chair. Hammar's production aesthetic favours space and repetition, letting filtered basslines and sparse percussive elements do the talking across the EP's runtime.

Dirty Hands has consistently championed this kind of no-frills, deep-rooted approach to techno and tech house. Ontario fits the label's sensibility exactly: raw synthesizer work, careful EQ choices, tracks that reward patient DJing. Nothing extraneous, nothing that distracts from the core groove.

A solid addition to the catalogue for those who understand that the best records are often the quietest ones.