California-born, Montreal-based producer Devon Hansen is a man of many aliases.

Since 2013 he’s released as lotide on Astro:dynamics and under his own name on Where To Now?, but this year Hansen has been operating under the guise of Stefan Jós, a project he first introduced on a split EP for Opal Tapes.

Following February’s Things You Left Behind EP on raum, he returns this month with Primitives, nine tracks of subtly disorienting rhythms hewn from homemade sounds, where metal and wood ricochet off each other in crisp, precise movements; the ambience is coldly subterranean, like swimming through an underground lake in the pitch-dark.

As with the previous EP, “the idea behind Primitives was to strip things down and focus on detail, as well as use homemade sounds almost exclusively,” Hansen tells FACT. “The difference here is that most of the processing took place outboard, so things sound a bit dirtier this time around. In my mind it’s unmistakably a Stefan record, as it’s meant for the dancefloor in a weird kind of way. It did, however, originally begin as a Lotide release, so some of the older sensibilities crop up here and there in small ways. This will probably happen more and more for Stefan before long.”

Primitives was mastered by Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare and cut by Andreras ‘Lupo’ Lubich of D&M, and you can stream it in full below ahead of its release via flau/raum on May 18. Hansen has also just been announced to perform at the MUTEK in Montreal, which runs from May 27-31.