Applescal is set to release his debut album on Riley Reinhold’s Traum imprint.

This young Dutch producer has only had one previous physical release, which was also for Traum, but Reinhold is extremely enthusiastic about his future on the label. “We were attracted by the approach of releasing a full long player by a very young talented person who has more to say than a dozen 12-inches could actually carry,” he states.

Applescal—real name Pascal Terstappen—lists his musical heroes as Extrawelt and Nathan Fake, and you can clearly hear the influence that these Border Community acts have had on his sound throughout the record, which goes under the title of A Slave’s Commitment. While the chiming trebly melodies reminiscent of those acts have a heavy presence on the record, it’s certainly not a one dimensional one, as Terstappen hops between dark, speaker-busting acid (“Fink & FC”), ambient washes (“Music for Her Ears”), and slow, loping micro-house (“Nottingham Hobbits,” “Reeeer”) throughout the album’s twelve tracks.

Combining electronica with dance tracks with grunge, Applescal has created tracks that sound as if they were recorded by live bands. There is a lot of explosive juvenileness in this album, a quality which always has been essential for albums so special.

With heroes like Apparat and Extrawelt, you may well call his style the second wave of indie electronica. The album features music that is full of beautiful, nasty acid baselines, “ghostly” atmospherics reminiscent of The Cure, My Bloody Valentine or Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, sad melancholic psychedelic, grinding acid and colourful and happy-sad tones.

So get ready to enter a world of colours and noises, gigantic soundscapes, and electronic fairytales.