Review: Marking its third birthday, Maison Close drops a new compilation. Previous split releases on the French imprint have tended towards the harder end of the techno spectrum, and VA004 very much inhabits this space. Swooh's "Long Way" revolves around a lean, acid-soaked rhythm that veers into robust break beats, while on "This Is Not A Love Song", The Chronics also demonstrate an inventive approach. Wrapping breathy vocal samples and tranced out melodies into a peak-time groove, it underlines Maison Close's support of emerging techno strains. That said, VA004 isn't short of bona fide club bangers, including Dahlia's ebm-fuelled "Assassin" and the frenetic tech-trance of DJ Hyperdrive's "Aura Synthesis".
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