Onur Ozer

The term "minimal techno" fails to capture the expressiveness of Onur Ozer's music. Like Ricardo Villalobos, the Turkish producer has a way of turning the minutest detail -- a rattling shaker, or a drum that sounds like water droplets -- into a major event. Navigating Kasmir feels like wending one's way through a rain forest with magnifying glass in hand: Percussive lines braid into elephantine vines, voices go caroming across the forest canopy; curtains of clicks suggest overwhelming insects all around. Rhythm and melody come to seem almost symbiotic. This is techno at its most organic.