Vereker - "Flesh & Blood" - (6:31)
135 BPM LJV - "Event Horizon" - (5:31) 160 BPM
Vereker - "Bedroom Jihad" - (1:18) 120 BPM
Review: Oliver Vereker made his debut last March with two decidedly robust 12" singles on the mighty L.I.E.S. Having followed it up with more hard-as-nails excursions on Russian Torrent Versions and The Trilogy Tapes, Vereker now pops up on Berceuse Heroique with more nightmarish visions of a dystopian, post apocalyptic future. Lead cut "Flesh & Blood" is clearly the most floor-friendly of the bunch, offering surging techno rhythms overlaid with clanking percussion and little else. It's stark but strangely attractive. Low Jack hook-up "Event Horizon" flips the script, offering a beatless saunter through drone pastures, while "Bedroom Jihad" offers intense white noise, barely audible vocal samples and intense atmospherics.