Emergence is the latest LP from German musician, photographer, and field recordist Matthias Frick (R&S, Ki Records, Project Mooncircle). Frick first self-released music as Sieren over a decade ago, back in 2011, but his music has long stretched towards the past: in the mid-aughts, his productions dipped into the sun-kissed sounds of trance, and in the first half of the 2010s, he donned his current alias and fell in with the dreamy world of post-dubstep, which is itself a veritable constellation of sounds, ideologies, and genres. Emergence is the sound of dance-music lifer taking umpteen idioms and casting them into the unknown, casting his every move in an unmistakably sepia tinge. This is the result of a life spent with beat tapes, headphone sessions, and club nights alike; any distinctions between the three, it seems, are an exercise in out-and-out pedantry. Emergence was mixed in Dolby Atmos by Jon Niess at Austin Signal Studios.