A Compilation for the Rhythm of Night Rivers
Los Angeles-based electronic music collective 100% Silk is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a special selection that gathers scenes dedicated to the night: “Late Shift Silk”. Like rhythms shaped under the city’s neon lights, this compilation is both blurry and sharp, both warm and alien.
The night shuts the door, the playlist starts:
— arriving home with bodies collapsing from exhaustion,
— a car ride clearing the lungs on empty streets,
— the second wave that begins at home with those escaping the first party…
“Late Shift Silk” touches every one of these moments.
Tracks from the Album: Different Shades of Night
El Nalgón – “To The Window”
This piece from Florida captures the moment suspended between sleep and wakefulness. A repeating mid-range synth breathes in and out while everything else drifts freely, as if mixed into a dream. Drums shapeshift, melodies appear and vanish; it’s the perfect feeling of dissolving toward the end of the night.
Summer Sinners – “UNTITLED”
As the night deepens, the venue changes: a humid warehouse, a dark rave space. The breakbeat structure is hard and cutting. Rave stabs make the body rediscover its rhythm. It carries a bright energy like a sudden breeze hitting your face on a hot summer night.
Dorosoto – “Concrete Switch”
The inevitable ambient section of the compilation. It has no fixed form; and that’s precisely the point. Sounds collide, scatter, and reunite. Is it the beginning of a thought, its end, or its transformation; it’s hard to tell. The perfect companion for the part of the night we can never fully make sense of.
This 11-track selection offers a unique night route with each piece, once again reminding us of the electronic aesthetic that 100% Silk has sustained for years.
Apartment No:26 Note:
“Late Shift Silk” is a compilation that elegantly summarizes modern electronic music’s devotion to the night. The album poetically depicts, with a cohesive whole, the searches that echo in the gaps between sleep and ritual, the dissolving sense of time, and the dark rhythm of the city. Especially the tracks by El Nalgón and Summer Sinners provide excellent representations of 100% Silk’s 15-year production line, both historically and aesthetically.
