Review: Having recently graced the Zenker brothers label Illian Tape with some ambient material, Jonas Kopp returns to his more familiar floor focused approach with this release for Oscar Mulero's Warm Up label. It's the Spanish label's first 2014 drop but maintains the pace set on last year's clutch of tracks from Developer, Svreca, Go Hiyama and Mulero himself with lead cut "Westphalia" dominated by the corrugated feeling of the flanged sequence that pummels proceedings forward in cahoots with some haywire 909 hats. The accompanying mix from Mulero is more stripped down but retains the dirty feeling of Kopp's original whilst "Circinus" is sci-fi techno at its finest.
Review: Could Go become Jonas Kopp's Red moment? It's not beyond the realms of possibility and the Argentinean producer has certainly taken inspiration from the second record in Dave Clarke's benchmark trilogy. Like Red 2, Go is all about the dramatic chord stabs that burst out of the arrangement intermittently. The only real difference to Clarke's 90s anthem is that Kopp's release has the benefit of modern production techniques, with tough off-beats, firing percussion and a repetitive vocal sample adding to the sense of drama. In a neat twist, Clarke and Mr Jones provide the remix under their Unsubscribe guise. Adding stomping beats, steely drums and a menacing dimension to the chord stabs, it's a fitting reshape of one of 2014's biggest techno tunes.
Review: With his Modularz label becoming a firm bastion of unfiltered techno machinations, Developer sets about bombarding our senses with his productions and curations across this eight track release. His own track "Heated" rattles through an industrial landscape devoid of colour, instead populated by reverb decays and distant clangs of metal, while "Dirty Drive" sees him stretching to work a melody into his machinery, coming out with a metallic dub chord drowning in its own echo, and "Dirty Drive 2" adds some complexity to the musicality and creates an utterly engrossing hook in the process. Shifted's remix meanwhile keeps a careful distance between the clean beat and the murky textures of the dubby elements. Handing over to Truncate, "Diffraction" flips the script with a central melodic hook and a thoroughly austere beat, while Jonas Kopp's remix beefs up that same theme by doubling up the phrase and edging towards a peak time monster, and Markus Suckut takes things deeper and into a more house compatible realm. For a real lesson in refined techno composition however, head straight to Stanislav Tokachev's "Building Peaks". Simplicity doesn't come more captivating than that synth line.
Review: Sleaze keeps it close to home on Fear Of Acid. The work of local lads Lex Gorrie and Ross Hillier, it's a barnstorming affair. "Anxiety Attack" resounds to pounding kick drums and a pumping rhythm while an eerie whistle hangs in the ether. On the title track, the duo fuse yelping 303s with a heads-down, stripped back rhythm. More subtle than "Anxiety. . . " it is still an effective club track. On his remix, Jonas Kopp turns "Attack" into a lean, big room techno stomper, underpinned by cheese wire percussion, while Dave Simpson's version of the same track is a more esoteric affair, guided by a repetitive tonal sequence.
Review: The first release on this new label comes from the shadowy NX1 duo. Known for their deep, hypnotic techno, there are no major surprises on the title track, with spiky drums laying the basis for dramatic acid spirals and breakdowns and an underlying feeling of eeriness. The Agony Forces reshape is tougher and more streamlined, with insistent bleeps riding a rolling rhythm. Tadeo's take on "RL1" ventures down a psychedelic path, with woozy synths, tough metallic beats and whiplash percussion making for an infectious cocktail. Finally, the Jonas Kopp version is led by spiky, firing percussion, intense claps and a churning chord sequence.
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