Aaron Palmquist – Cohesion EP

You can hear why the original EP might have excited DJs in the digger community. It brings to the table a few different sounds—electro, breakbeats, tech house, a little trance—that have been popular in recent years. Palmquist, a Canadian artist who also released music as Chameleon and performed live at leading Toronto venues, wrote these tracks in the mid-'90s when these styles were still relatively fresh. Indeed, there's a lovely sense of naivety here that you also find in plenty of classic music from this time period, a kind of shock-of-the-new zeitgeist that'll never be recaptured.