- Orcha, Matt Shears out of Melbourne is the latest in Australia's handful of fiddle-wielding producers, joining the likes of Lupa J, Lucianblomkamp and Oliver Tank. It maybe says something about their music upbringings as fiddle players that none of them make trap-dance-bangers, psy-trance or deep house. Instead they all cleave remarkably closely to the same style of considered, moody, downtempo beats. Hey, and before you remind me, I know the cello-slinging Alison Wonderland and her warehouse-filling tunes don't fit my theory at all, but a) it's a cello and b) don't make me abandon my theory, we'll say she's the exception that proves the rule.

Orcha nearly upsets the apple-cart by himself because the range of tunes on his debut EP Bodybound, is a bit more diverse than you might think. A cut like his first single, Crescent, neatly ticks that downtempo box, employing quite old school hip hop beats, supplemented by string plucking, along with purring synths and a lead line crooned out on the violin, offset by the smoky alto of Liahona who puts her triphop chanteuse background to good use here.

Get By, however, is a very different beast. The string pluckings float around, stripped of the hip hop beat and with a confident grin Orcha throws it up several gears into a blissful 130bpm dancefloor operator. In both the multi-instrumentalism and its gently embracing mood, it's quite reminiscent of the work of Caribou or Tycho. The following number, Motion, butches out, maintaining the bpm and with the kit providing pounding energy, building to big peaks, including a piping flute solo. The EP's final cut, Reckoner, returns to the midtempo beats, but now with some string quartet action and a lot more pizzicato to quietly accompany another guest vocal spot – this time for Canadian-Australian folk-looper, David Martell, who does something of a Thom Yorke impression in his impassioned, emotive turn.

I must admit I really key into Orcha's dance moves the most, but that's just personal preference. There's plenty here for everyone, which is quite impressive for just five tracks. Orcha and his friends have made a great first impression with Bodybound. At a time when there's quite a lot of conformity in Australian beats, it's great to hear something a bit different. Given the evidence so far, I think there's a lot more diversity to come.

- Chris Cobcroft.