Andreas Mösch is not only responsible for Kraftfeld’s class program, but also made himself a name as a member of Laserwolf as well as a DJ and producer under his AM Khamsaa moniker. After contributing a track to Lux Rec’s acclaimed Schwarze Schweiz, Suisse Sombre, Svizzera Scura compilation the other day, Mösch steps up with a solo EP for Light Of Other Days. On This Placid Place, the Winterthur-based producer presents three tracks, that explore “the field in-between the functionality of modern club music and the tradition of American Minimal Music,” as the press text promises.

The EP kicks off with “Sonnet For Someone,” a pointilistic etude that is equally sharp and quirky—closer to Norm Chamber’s Panabrite project than to Lorenzo Senni‘s [see zweikommasieben #18] output. Even a bit more quirky than the opener is “Der Schumacherli,” which got its name from an odd, Punch-and-Judy-esque voice recording that is underpinned with a dense synth and some percussion that only finds a prominent role over the course of the track. It’s the interplay between a xylophone and a piano in the second half that make “Der Schumacherli” as striking as it is, however. Gentle chords and a smooth recording of the sounds of a drum kit make “Everything Was Left Because It Was Broken” on the flip side the warmest track on the EP—and its highlight. It’s surprising then, what Philipp Otterbach, who just dropped an EP on Amsterdam’s Knekelhuis, makes out of this very piece with his remix, that closes the EP. The German artist strips “Everything Was Left Because It Was Broken” down so that the track suddenly gets a very distinct dark quality in the manner of an early Raime-recording.

AM Khamsaa’s This Placid Place is out on Friday, December 13. Pre-listen to the EP above and make sure to order a copy here.