06: D1
‘PITCHER’
(DUB POLICE 12”)

“B-side, the brilliantly named ‘Pitcher’, is even better. Faster than ‘Jus Business’, it’s again defined by that incredible sense of drive, but it’s faster, higher and woozier – little samples whizz through the air like stars around a dizzy cartoon character’s head.” – full review here

07: SANDRA ELECTRONICS
‘IT SLIPPED HER MIND’
(DOWNWARDS 10″)

clips here

Now that he has the Sandwell District imprint as an outlet for his more “straightforward” techno tracks, Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor is favouring ever more exploratory releases for his long-running Downwards label.

Here, he teams up with Sandwell’s Juan Mendez (AKA Silent Servant) for an ominous but open-hearted drum-and-drone excursion that variously recalls The Velvet Underground, Amon Duul II and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, but  nonetheless has an assured and irreducible identity of its own.

08: KUEDO
‘STARFOX’
(from DREAM SEQUENCE EP, PLANET MU)

“Lead track ‘Starfox’ pummels out dangerous shards of bass energy and synth sweeps as it gallops along angularly. It’s like a hyperfunked John Carpenter soundtracking an assault on a video game arcade. Or, imagine the opening sequence of Bladerunner, careering into a carnival of technicolour.” – full review here

09: THESE NEW PURITANS
‘WHITE CHORDS’
(from HIDDEN, ANGULAR LP)

“On a micro level the stuttering swing and snap is bolstered by cable flexes and 8-bit punctuation, but pull away and the song gradually builds to a fluid piece of dramatic pop music, Barnett’s flair for abstract-profound lyrics coming to a head with lines like “X marks the spot but also means no.” – full review here

10: JOY ORBISON
‘THE SHREW WOULD HAVE CUSHIONED THE BLOW’
(AUS MUSIC 12”)

‘Hyph Mngo’ still gives us shivers, and so does this.

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