Review: Marking the one-hundredth release on Second State, label owners Pan-Pot drop a diverse three-tracker. The title track is a club-friendly groove with a difference; peppered with vocal samples, the arrangement resounds to skeletal, dissected percussion and sounds like the duo's distinctive take on loop techno. Pan-Pot offer a different flavour on "Particle Fever", where churning, shimmering chords unfold over firing percussion and a relentless, throbbing bass. In stark contrast is "Bow". Revealing a more mellow side to the duo's work, its woozy, time-stretched bass and stepping beats show that when it comes to making forward-facing techno, Pan-Pot have most bases covered.
Review: Pan Pot's Second State label has been firing on all guns lately, and they maintain their high-quality focus with this new release. A collaboration between German veteran Martin Eyerer and newcomer Ackermann, it favours an utterly modern approach. The title track sees the pair lay down a pitch-bent vocal over razor sharp percussion and churning chords. It sounds like late to mid-90s, pre-micro house Force Inc, albeit benefiting from a slick, contemporary production touch. On "Inside", a similar approach prevails; again, the pair choose a combination of tight percussion and enveloping chords, but this time the vocal sample is looped and filtered until it sounds like it was derived from an old UK hardcore record.
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