Review: It looks like 2017 could be the year that Ricardo Garduno breaks through. The Mexican producer has just released an excellent record for Oscar Mulero's Warm Up and now comes 827715. The title track mixes a snaking, pulsing groove with dreamy textures, all underpinned by powerful kicks. On "Sitios Desconocidos", he uses a murky, muddy bass with similar textures, and the combination proves to be just as effective. The label has also commissioned a series of remixes; Pfirter delivers a driving, chain mail percussive take on the title track, while Finnish producer Samuli Kemppi provides no fewer than three versions: his "V1", "V2" and dub takes are all understated and revolve around understated, rickety rhythms and ghostly sound scapes.
Review: Cologne's Bjorn Torwellen has definitely been a staple of the Tubingen based techno label Nachstrom Schalplatten; his dark and sinister techno sound finding a welcome home with the labels modus operandi and disturbing horror aesthetic. The album titled Who I Am certainly does explore this young German producer's headspace, such as on the fierce openers "Change" or "Locust" (in particular) with their dark industrial aesthetic reminiscent of Northern Structures or early Orphx. "Menschen Truemmer" or "Fyiddwytm" are the kind of brutal, no-holds bared techno exercises reminiscent of the early noughties that fellow countrymen Michael Burkat, Redhead or even W.J Henze were capable of.
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