Rafael Cerato Offers Spiritual Release With Acid-Spiked Techno Concoction “Yoru”

Rafael Cerato has spent the last few years refining a sound that manages to speak to the body just as much as it does the brain. His strain of heady, melody-driven techno has allowed him to infiltrate top-shelf imprints including Diynamic, Suara, Get Physical, Stil Vor Talent, and Einmusika. The French phenom has also graced the Dear Deer catalog through a couple of one-off collabs and as a regular remixer. He has finally received the invite from them for a solo outing, Karmaya & Yoru, which is reinforced with reworks from Dorian Craft, Robert Babicz, B.K.R., and Onur Ozman.

Both originals have a heightened spiritual sense about them, but “Yoru” sees Cerato taking that transcendental nature deeper into the dancefloor. Meditative vocal chants are carried on the back of rolling drums, eventually getting swept up in rolling acid licks, cascading synth progressions, murky chords, low-humming woodwind flourishes, and an intensity that increasingly thickens throughout the track’s sublime seven-minute run. This cerebral concoction is the perfect recipe for finding release while on your feet.

Available June 4 via Dear Deer Records.

Buy Rafael Cerato’s Karmaya & Yoru EP here.

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