#british techno

[beat-vision]

Makaton makes his Blueprint debut with the three-track 'Nothing Can Be Held In Our Hands For Long' EP - delivering a ruthless body of work incorporating components of British Techno.

[naivemelodie-blog]

Rhythmic Theory - Lucid State (Ancient Monarchy, 2015)

[diezecher]

Ansome; Londoner Kieran Whitefield shakes up UK techno in the best possible way. 

You know how you live for those moments where a discovery ends up being a provincial gold mine? Yeah, well this is one of mine (Not like I’m smug or anything).

This is dark techno done with precision- like an engine it's sound is matched with hard, unforgiving hydraulics that yank listeners without remorse. Added to that are a heart-stopping drum sequence and dissonant clanking that somehow work harmonically, where they really shouldn’t. 

This is an industrial techno track at one of its best. 

Listen If You Like (LIYL); Wertheimer, Karenn, Regis. 

[maria-hojberger]

Leftfield "Phat Planet"

Leftfield "Phat Planet"

[muhmuhsik-blog]

Squarepusher - Ufabulum

Well I cannot be sure I think this is Ufabulous. But who am I to say. Squarepusher is a Brit who has been around since the 90s. So his newest album doesn't appeal to my particular soft, deep taste, but I actually still kind of like it. Or maybe I hate it. Maybe I hate it because I kind of like it as I sit in the library listening on great headphones. But then I imagine the girl in front of me who is studying economics listening to this. If she heard just for a few moments she would think I was listening to the Transformers Soundtrack. No not the Soundtrack with cute songs that were placed in the film to make the film and the music studio make money. But the soundtrack to the whole film, the one the sound director created, the one that includes Shia LeBeouf being kind of (kind of) cute, and Megan Fox being kind of stupid yet very hot, and also includes large machines attempting to kill each other. This album is sort of a more melancholy version of Transformer death. Just now listening to the end of the song 'Stadium Ice' it sounded more or less like a helicopter coming to land. Like that scene in the end of Mary Kate and Ashley's It Takes Twowhen Kirstie Alley comes to save plucky Mary Kate/ the tomboy from inevitable doom via adoption. Ok, getting off track clearly. But look, postmodern multimedia connections! I bet Squarepusher would be proud. He seems like a postmodern kind of guy. Look at that album cover. Very postmodern, dare I even say it, a little science fiction. I guess the word for this is glitch. It is very disarming although apparently quite the rage these days. As long as you don't let it drive you mad.

Ok, so I just took a look at wikipedia. Although I would be a bad opinionmaker if I just believed everything they said. Although according to them, or allmusic.com, or something, Squarepusher is simply too technologically proficient, making his music inaccesible. This might indeed be the case. It definitely has an avant-garde feeling, reminding me of my days spent listening to John Cage for hours in the Rectal Hall (whoops, did I say rectal, I obviously meant recital). It is simply a barrage of sound, although I can almost imagine myself dancing to it, or maybe having an internal mindfuck to it. Although economics girl did just give me a weird look. Are my techno sounds too loud for you!?

So while I have ranted, I would just like to say that this album is good, although perhaps difficult. I hope you are ready.