Ican Productions At Juno Download

Review: UR associate Dan 'DJ Dex' Caballero drops four tracks of advanced techno funk on Santiago Salazar's imprint. The percussive "Nacha", featuring the breathy vocals of Naheedence is probably the most conventional offering here, but even it is heavy on noisy electronic riffs. At the other end of the scale is "Guanaco", an off beat, skittish rhythm punctuated by psychedelic, tweaked acid and "Barrio Bird", where a malign synth hovers over a filtered, percussive groove before descending on it like a nest of deranged wasps. It's a prelude for the most intense track on the release - the foreboding electro bass of "Lo Que Sea".

Review: Santiago Salazar's label drops a techno release full of surprises. "Aztlan Reclaimed" is classic Detroit techno, its ghostly synths traversing a jerky, bassy groove. At the other end of the spectrum is "El Dia", a busy jacking groove featuring insistent Spanish vocal samples - think of it as the Latino riposte to Floorplan's "Baby, Baby". The title track is in the mould of DJ 3000's releases on Motech, with loose, rolling tribal beats providing the backing for a techy chord builds. Salazar himself contributes a remix of "Trinity". Playing to the kind of epic, string-drenched sound that characterises early 00s Underground Resistance, the soaring bass leads into a series of bleepy breakdowns.