When artists become big enough, they become increasingly defined not by their actual work, but what we want their work to be. We begin to think of artists as inseparable from certain qualities and judge the work from these references. This paradox looms large when listening to Exhale, the collaborative album by Batu and Donato Dozzy.
The two artists have become veritable underground institutions: Batu and his label Timedance indelibly shaped the contemporary UK techno landscape by infusing the genre with a wide variety of sound system variants. And what is there left to say about Dozzy? His name by itself is shorthand for psychedelic techno.
With the bar set that high, it’s easy to go into Exhale with preset kudos. But what makes for…

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