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Review: Hemka follows 707 Collision, her debut on Balans from earlier this year, with a killer four-track EP. Favouring a purist approach to techno throughout, the first "Familiar" is a stripped back affair, led by tight claps and a series of niggling acid lines and broken glass minimal riffs. On "Familiar 2", the French producer moves into the kind of murky space that Jeff Mills' Purposemaker series has mapped out, with grimy, pounding kicks and eerie filter sweeps prevailing. The third instalment sees Hemka veer into Mike Parker's hypnotic, bleep-heavy territory, as an uptempo, steely rhythm track is supported by steely hi hats, while on the fourth and final "Familiar", a pumping, cavernous arrangement, supported by relentless claps, prevails.
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BALANS 024
08 Jun 18
Techno
08 Jun 18
Techno
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BALANS 022
22 Sep 17
Techno
22 Sep 17
Techno
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Review: 3KZ is a collaboration between Z.I.P.P.O and Kalean, a partnership which already this year has yielded the Parallel Reflections album. Now the pair makes an impressive debut on Darko Esser's label. The title track is a powerful purist techno affair, featuring steely percussion and rhythms, coupled with dramatic synth sweeps. "Nature of Motion" is deeper and more musical, with warm keys unraveling against a gurgling groove. On "Circles", the pair flex their dance floor muscle, as an insistent, driving arrangement is combined with eerie synth loops, while "Times" concludes this club EP with a rolling, atmospheric groove that has echoes of classic Vince Watson.
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BALANS 021
19 May 17
Techno
19 May 17
Techno
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BALANS 016
16 Feb 15
Techno
16 Feb 15
Techno
Review: It's been a rapid rise for Jordan Peak, with just four years active service seeing him snapped up by the likes of Morris/Audio, Bass Culture, One, Material, Tsuba and many more besides. On this latest release for Balans he's in a taut techno frame of mind, letting the edgy chords fly out of "Black Paint" with its piston-pumping rhythm section behind it. "Crocodile Tears" gets into a more restrained groove but there's plenty of movement in the lead synths, and "Cipher" strips things back further with an unresolving synth refrain and some dubby undertones. "False Start" meanwhile gets positively primal with its simple bleep hook and gnarly sound effects.
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BALANS 014
28 Apr 14
Techno
28 Apr 14
Techno
Review: Staffan Linzatti debuts on Balans, the sub-label to Dark Esser's Wolfskuil, with an EP of loopy, chord distorted techno. First up is the frenetic bounce of "Opening" which relentlessly threatens to push too far into the red, while "The Contraption" weaves, wobbles and bleeps like Jeff Mills at the controls of an out of control U.F.O. A reverby title track moves the EP into Frozen Border techno territory, while the ghostly and alien bleeps in "Control" create a spooky and atmospheric tension. Haunted DJ tools.
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BALANS 011
12 Aug 13
Techno
12 Aug 13
Techno
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BALANS 009
29 Apr 13
Techno
29 Apr 13
Techno
