Available on: Local Action 12″

‘Fervor’

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What’s this? Summer 2010 and we have Fabric mixes from Surgeon and Damian Lazarus, and the return of, gasp, boom clickety-click boom, PLASTIKMAN!

Is it time for a techno renaissance?

This EP from Svpreme Fiend, despite structurally owing more to UK garage than techno, suggests that might be the case. He’s doing all those clever syncopated rhythm things that Henke was doing on Monolake’s Silence, but in the context of transmissions aimed at the feet, rather than the head.

From the plangent synths and mournful atmospherics of ‘Deluge VIP’, ‘Downfall’ and ‘Killer’, Svpreme Fiend manages to evoke the kind of post-party melancholy that endeared Burial to pretty much everyone, while the rave revivalist chord stabs and four-to-the-floor final minutes of ‘Fervor’, are like a less rickety Rhythim is Rhythim. And despite their introspection, these tracks have humungous Laurent Garnieresque basslines that bore into your cortex leaving the impression that UK-centered club music is continuing to bubble away nicely.

Colin McKean