Florian T M Zeisig

Kelela producer, mattress afficionado and Enya fanatic Florian T M Zeisig makes his Stroom debut with 'Planet Inc', a cosmic ode to the cult '90s German TV show 'Space Night'. An afters gem, it mutates vaporous dub techno into undulating, glutinous ambience - one for fans of West Mineral, Jan Jelinek, 3XL and early Space Afrika, for sure.

Back in the early '90s, German TV channel Bayerischer Rundfunk replaced the nighttime test cards - the holding screens that were displayed when there was no programming - with 'Space Night', a regular broadcast that set interstellar footage from the German satellite ASTRO-SPAS to woozy downtempo music. Obviously, the show became a cult smash, especially with bleary-eyed ravers, and inevitably 'Space Night' even made it to the club itself, with slowed-down broadcasts used as visuals at Frankfurt's Club XS. Zeisig memorialises this era on 'Planet Inc' - he began to re-watch the show during late night recording sessions, and his treatment is suitably horizontal, a clouded haze of dubbed-out technoid pulses and hypnotic oscillations that's more concerned with what happens after the club than with the dancefloor itself.