Berlin’s Mobilee label has carved a formidable name over 30 singles released in the last couple of years. Five of those were by Tassilo Ippenberger and Thomas Benedix, aka Pan-pot, who are now releasing Mobilee’s first artist album. On the surface the sounds throbbing here could be termed minimal but that’s also quite dismissive of the garden of unearthly delights scuttling about in the record’s very dark underbelly like rats chomping on Satan’s scrotum. Tracks like ‘Apocalyptic Horseman’ and ‘Hypnotized Shark’ exude eerie menace, occasionally to horror soundtrack depths. There are ghosts of familiar techno strains littering some of the gnarled pulses with the dial switching from gentle to weighty with subtle, pressure-cooker intensity. Above all, they bring something new to an already crowded techno table, even if it is accompanied by a sack of Beelzebub’s radioactive smegma. The Devil’s techno indeed.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs