The Grammy-nominated artist Martin Buttrich has been making music since 1992 under different names and aliases, with a number of records on Planet E, Poker Flat, Four:Twenty, and Cocoon. Crash Test will be his first full release under his own name, and it’s released on Desolat, the record label he and Loco Dice founded in 2007. The album collects eleven previously unreleased tracks, picked from among many works he has recorded at his Hannover studio and various spaces worldwide in the past fifteen months, and it’s the first electronic album he’s made without any production partner. Buttrich has spent recent years developing a sound that encompass the entire spectrum between dreaminess, warmth, mechanics, melancholy, and calibrated dancefloor precision. Ultra-detailed and easily accessible, his catalogue showcases some of the most influential dance tracks since the nineties, and he’s a master of tasteful remixes like Moloko’s “Familiar Feeling,” the massive Tracey Thorn’s “It’s all True” and The Whitest Boy Alive’s “Unknown.”