Richimed Drops Four-Track Rytm EP via Belgrade Label Brosh

Brosh, the Belgrade label carving its lane in the minimal/microhouse corridor, put out Richimed's Rytm EP on March 6, four tracks that sit squarely at the intersection where stripped-down techno bleeds into the more textured, shuffling territory of microhouse.

The EP runs through "Bikejump," "Rytm," "Smoogy," and "Wet Day," a sequence of titles that already tells you something about the register Richimed is working in: slightly off-kilter, casually named, not trying to signal weight with gothic or industrial vocabulary. The Bandcamp page tags span minimal, microhouse, and minimal techno, which is an honest triangulation. This is not peak-hour, hands-in-the-air material. It sits closer to the patient, detail-obsessed end of the spectrum where producers like Ricardo Villalobos and Zip built entire philosophies around what you leave out.

Belgrade has been quietly putting in work as a city that takes this aesthetic seriously, and Brosh fits that picture. Labels operating out of Eastern European cities in this space tend to move without a lot of fanfare, letting the catalog build credibility track by track rather than through marketing cycles. Dropping a four-track EP with a title as blunt as Rytm is consistent with that posture.

What the release does well, at least as a curatorial statement, is hold a tight genre focus without feeling like a mood board exercise. Microhouse in particular is a tag that gets abused, slapped on anything with a clicky drum pattern, but the combination with minimal techno suggests Richimed is working in the drier, more percussive end of both traditions rather than leaning on the warmer, murkier side that sometimes gets lumped in.

Four tracks is the right scope for this kind of release. It gives a listener enough material to understand the producer's sensibility without padding the runtime to justify a higher price point. Rytm is available now on Bandcamp through Brosh.