Interstate

Talk about hidden classics—Interstate is like the Basic Channel rusty dusty dub thing opened up and cracked apart. The rhythms here have the texture and tone of electronic music but Robert Henke’s programming and playing is so fluid it absolutely sounds like a full house of humans whacking away in an aluminum duplex. Combine that with the lovely pads and sweeps and you get a genuinely dimensional kind of pulse and pace. Easily the equal to many of the more celebrated albums of the time, and probably better.