Ritchie Hawtin’s Minus label had a phenomenal 2006 and this year is building up a formidable head of steam too. Since 1998, the label has driven and defined what’s come to be known as minimal techno but constantly pushed it past the outer limits. But a vital point is the spirit of fun and adventure which courses through the funked-out future-scapes which bowl out of its personality-studded roster. They’re all here on a compilation which rams home just what a great label this is. Not a retrospective, more a slapping of recent vital organs on the table. A feast of techno friends like Troy Pierce, Gaiser, Heartthrob, Marc Houle, Mathew Jonson, JPLS, Loco Dice, Magda and Hawtin himself with ‘The Tunnel’. all sculpting alien electronic sounds-capes unlike anything else around but still great to cavort to in a club. I’ve already reviewed all these titans as singles. Ambivalent’s marvelously sick ‘R U OK’ is plain hilarious. It also includes a bonus CD of Troy Pierce weaving them all together like he’s arranging his radioactive garden to trip up the nearest goat.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: KRIS NEEDS
