Review: Following last year's album on Axis, Diego Teijeiro aka Oxygeno delivers this superb, hard-hitting release for Mord. "Flames Around" is a bruising, broken beat track. At the heart of the arrangement is a swung rhythm, underscored by visceral kicks and whooshing filters. Both "Driving to Nowhere" and "Through My Veins" are straight, linear tracks. Inspired by the sonic extremities of Jeff Mills' Waveform Transmissions series, they see Oxygeno drop coruscating riffs and razor-sharp, steely percussion over pounding kicks. "Magnetism" favours a similar approach, albeit with acid tones augmenting the hard-edged groove. The spectre of 90s techno also looms large on "Unpunished". On this occasion however, Teijeiro draws on the hypnotic tones of Richie Hawtin's "Substance Abuse" to create a modern-day techno masterpiece.
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