After a good string of releases for Ghostly International and Spectral Sounds, Ann Arbor’s Matthew Dear brings a full-length of next-school minimal Detroit techno for Mr. Hawtin’s Plus 8 venture. Hovering over the smacking claps, smeared voices and soda-bottle percussion that litter Dear’s alternately burbling, murmuring and snappy arrangements is a potent, surround-sound bass sensibility that departs from the standard clipped low-end that minimalism usually offers up. Along with the slivered-sample approach he subtly integrates, Dear’s bass-ic concerns bring a necessary, almost committed warmth to the proceedings in Eslaf, making it far more than decent driving music.