Review: For its latest split release, Planet Rhythm welcomes some regular names and new faces. Re:Axis, who has released many times on the label, opens proceedings with the wonderfully tripped out "Protoportal", where a sleek, pulsating groove is fused with insistent percussion, creating a cavernous effect. Petter B's "Transporter" is denser, as firing hi hats underpin a relentless, tonal groove, while VSK's "Wrap" marks a shift towards glitchy, bass-heavy territory, with gut-busting low end combined with abstract metallic sounds. Rounding off the release, Re:Axis teams up with Scalameriya, another Planet Rhythm regular, with the duo upping intensity levels on the linear, driving "Spectra".
Review: Aeon Core is the follow-up to Scalameriya's 2016 debut album Hubris and like its predecessor, is a hard-hitting affair. The title track resounds to glitchy stabs and the machine-gun rattle of percussion, with these visceral elements underpinned by an ominous bass. It sets the tone for the rest of the release; "Kiti Kimera" is littered with noisy feedback and dramatic synths playing out against the backdrop of a stomping, ebm-style rhythm track, "Xegatron" is a relentless track that lapses into hardcore-riff powered builds and drops and "Lake Of Wires" sees Scalameriya
drop a glitchy club techno banger. However, it's not all synapse-shattering material and "Celestial" is a hypnotic, droning soundscape.
Review: Perc's Tracks Of... has become the unofficial annual state of the hard techno nation synopsis, and 2020 is no different. It features label favourites such as AnD, Manni Dee and Scalameriya, who contribute linear, driving tracks (Dee's "The Wolves" and "Exploit Me, I'm Yours"), crunchy industrial bangers ( Scalameriya's intense "Plothole") and searing acid workouts (AnD's "Morning Sesh").
But this year's edition also welcomes newer names to the stable such as Ghost in the Machine and Tymon, who impress with the visceral "Breaking the Seal" and the broken beat "Woodman" respectively. The compilation also collects tracks that veteran producer The Advent's released this year on the label, with the lean rhythm of "Scorched" and the jacking "Planting Seeds" - a follow-up to the 1997 track "House Seed" - really standing out.
Review: Tommy Four Seven's label celebrates five years of releasing uncompromising techno with this fine compilation. It gets off to a clubby start with Killawatt's rumbling, tribal "Champagne Prerogative", while on "Threads", Carrier drops a Regis-style broken beat stepper that resounds to rumbling bass and ghostly textures. Meanwhile, Headless Horseman occupies the middle ground between straight techno and stepping rhythms on the multi-layered, mesmerising "Sand Mountain". NN takes this approach to its brutal, logical conclusion on the electronic feedback and cranium crushing kicks of "Deception", while the label owner teams up with Ancient Methods to deliver the pounding industrial rhythm and static crackle percussion of "XIX".
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