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The new EP from Memoria comes from fast-rising Romanian producer Vid whose previous outings have come on labels including Fear of Flying and Barraca Music. Vid (Vidum) aka Sorin Rastoaca is a producer obsessed with nature and organic sounds. His latest release >Rebirth<, is stripped but not light on feeling, and mines a vein somewhere between deep house and minimal techno. Etime is a fluttery, eerie cut that works on many subtle layers. Like the feathery minimal percussion of Villalobos, the Romanians sounds present like flapping butterfly wings as a kick drum punches out a varied pattern below. Poem is a little louder and bolder, with a firm rolling kick drum and drunken, wubby sounds running right through its core. Plenty of sonic details flesh out the languorous but slightly tribal groove. Rebirth is again about little tiny details and how they evolve with time, but the framework they inhabit this time is deep, late-night house with gentle tinkles on keys coming over like a fluttering candle in the dark. 3729 gets its head down and mines a shifty, itching and tight minimal groove, closing out an EP which shows VID to be a master of working minimum sounds into maximum effects.