Review: Burgeoning half-step D&B producer Epilleptech steps up to Terra Null with this immersive EP of psychoactive rhythms and pulses that carry the torch from the Autonomic days. "Nyctophobia" does a fine job of dirtying up its basslines while all around patter crisp drum lines and spooky atmospherics, before "Natural Selection" heads into a more overtly unhinged head space that revolves around an existential speech sample. "Peru" goes down its own path into intricate percussive lines with a tribal twist about them, both spiritual and menacing in the same bar, and then "Premonition" delivers the finishing blow with a slow-paced lurch leaving all the more room for the bass to growl out.
Review: The line dividing techno and abstract electronics has been crossed on multiple occasions in recent years, but the same cannot be said about the border between electro and atmospheric textures. Step forward Create Her, whose "108" manages to combine the dark, bassy undercurrents of electro with static hiss and woozy filters. "Her Ritual Is Travel" appears at first to venture farther down this path thanks to its ambient intro, but soon enough hammering beats and a sickening, churning bass takes hold. It's but a minor fluctuation however, and the Estereo version of "108" pushes the crossover a few steps down the path, with rolling drums and a moody bassline pushed moving in and out of dramatic break downs.
Review: Terra Null Recordings marks a powerful coming together of forces from all over the globe with its first release, a dark, ominous EP filled with brooding horror and tension. American label founder Cirrus provides the EP's title track "Shiver Shrapnel", which hits hard and fast, riveting machinegun blasts of percussion through dark, twisted bass. Featuring equally twisted remixes from L 33 and French-Canadian IDM prodigy Woulg, the EP closes with "Tension and Confusion", a claustrophobic soundscape dripping with dampened percussion and steamy atmospherics. Exciting stuff.
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