“If you do not hear this” a distorted voice says at the start of Shed’s third album, The Killer, as low bass frequencies are deployed, “Or that – you will not feel it”. It’s a suitably tongue in cheek moment from René Pawlowitz, who, despite operating in a fundamentally dry area of dance music, seems to be increasingly keen to have some fun with what he does. It’s therefore not totally surprising that he’s ended up releasing an album on 50Weapons, a label run by a duo (Modeselektor) whose personal brand is represented by a stylised monkey face, who have always been outsiders to what the rest of Berlin’s techno scene has been doing at any given time, much like Pawlowitz himself.

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