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Thanks for the recommendations. All gorgeous tracks. I think the Biblioni drifts (lol) too far into Balearic (though the sound is, as you say, verging on that scene) and the Parker too insistent and 'on the one'.

The specific thing I'm thinking of revolves around a regular skittery drum pattern (somewhere between 110-130bpm?) and stays with it.

'70s/'80s German takes on what I understand this sound to be:

Wolfgang Riechmann
Deutsche Wertarbeit
Harald Grosskopf

While looking up the youtubes to attach, it turns out all of these have been reissued by Bureau B so that may be a good place to look further. Also, you get TWO guys painted silvery blue, how can you not want that?

Love all of those (and the blue paint just *works*). Maybe a bit propulsive to be truly skittery but the Deutsche Wertarbeit is definitely going on the list.

Looking back at the original list, I realise my inclusion of Neu! is plain confusing. I guess it's a more straightforward 'songs that have the same insistent yet skittery beat as Custard Speedtalk'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtU2Yi2xgGE

I think a lot of it is down to walking and how certain tracks act almost like Google glasses, painting the landscape in glitter as you move.

Ah yeah, I see what you mean - I was concentrating more on the vibes of the top lines which do match, and while none of the ones I suggested have what I'd consider 'heavy' beats they aren't very skittery. I'm sure some stuff I loved in the '90s would be right for this, but knowing my brain it won't give up any names easily. Maybe Bowery Electric??

Pole comes to mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGlPCAE3_uM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKrjdL0ycx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n_8EUjM-MY

A track like Tanzen by Pole might work

Oh bendy literally just said this