Kontext is fast emerging as one of those artists who, like Pangaea, have very few titles to their name, but the astonishing quality of the few jewels they’ve dropped place them in a slightly different echelon to the majority. Also akin to Pangaea, Martyn, 2562 and Ramadanman, Kontext takes a wholly un-blinkered view of the music he produces. While journalists and bloggers scramble for suitable pigeon holes the producers set about crafting further genre-defying treats.

The latest from Kontext is “Convex Curved Mirror” backed with “Hometown Swamp,” of which the former takes such a broad overview of the dubstep/techno overlaps it places any comparison to one side and moves more towards the skewed jazz electronics of Cobblestone Jazz. I was almost ready to peg this as more suitable to home listening, but after repeated and louder replays, the track unfurls from its sequestered, spatial beginnings to its full writhing glory, presenting itself as a deep but fearsome heavyweight club contender. Amidst glitchy crackles, hold and release chords and chalky emissions of noise, Kontext slowly introduces a wriggling keyboard line evoking Mathew Jonson’s noodly jazz side project. Flipping the syncopated drums on their heads the last third of the track adopts a solid 4/4 timing further blurring any preconceived notions of genre.

“Hometown Swamp” on the other hand has no such clubby aspirations, spending most of its time under a foggy blanket of broad, sweeping chords and ethereal, spaced out pads. The bass line is blunted and burrowing, contrasting against dreamy, floating tones of the pads. Incoherent voices filter through the track adding to a sense that overall it would not feel out of place in an alternate version of the Blade Runner soundtrack. Kontext keeps things remarkably fresh with this stunner of a release and proves he’s one to watch closely in 2009.