Egg, N7, Sat BB Aside from a fistful of excellent hard-nosed techno releases in 2014, Paula Temple has spent much of recent years putting her Midas touch to the work of others, releasing two high-profile remixes for the Prodigy and the Knife, as well as a guttural, squelchy edit of Chevel on Berlin label Stroboscopic Artefacts.
After spending several consecutive hours binging on DJ tool techno releases and retro house cuts, every beat starts to blend together.
I often thought they were techno releases and every now and then an EBM record that had an instrumental cut might make it into the shop.
Spiker was amongst the hardest techno releases in circulation last year; reeking of mischief and abandon, its trifecta of heavy acid-techno rompers just that bit more unstable and corroding than either's solo material.
"0809" is a brutally satisfying piece of gnarly techno, released in conjunction with their collaborative BNR TRAX 28, which comes out today (you can listen to both tracks on that release below).
For those of you who may not remember, Walker was responsible for one of 1999's best techno releases, Stabiles, while White put out a solid effort, Questions and Comments, in 2001 (both on Force Inc .. On Discord, the two bring their strengths to the fore.
A lust for rare hardware isn't anything new, but from the raw techno released by the likes of L.I.E.S. and FIT Sound to the cinematic synth work of live acts like S U R V I V E, the physical tools of the trade are leaving as big a thumbprint as ever on the world of electronic music.
Now, one of the masterminds behind the outfit, Alixander III real name Alphonse Lanza III, though he's sometimes known as Fonzy— has come forth with a quality 12" today on Toy Tonics, the German label known for its wonderful techno releases.
It doesn't matter if you've explicitly come in to get that Robert Hood re-press you covertly slipped behind the Wham records in the bargain basement — the only way to win the respect of the surly dudes in there is to pretend you're really interested in the new industrial techno releases, the Nu Groove section, the experimental 7"s and the Bauhaus bin.
