Cologne producer Benno Blome started Sender in 1999 and has since carved a formidable name for top quality techno of the deepest kind. Now based in Berlin, the label has hit its 69th release and celebrates with a sublime consolidation of recent twelve-inch highlights and four previously-unissued stonkers mixed together by Benno. By the time the ‘chocolate city’ speech booms in over the sparse turbo-funk of Error Error’s ‘End Of The Day’, this set’s brilliant emotional roller-coaster is well in motion, ostensibly minimal but invoking the propulsive funky skeletons of the JB’s before beaming up into sheer alien radio frequencies when it feels like it. Spectral organ riffs hover and the spirit of dub is ever-present as names like Andre Crom, Frank Martiniq, Baby Ford and Benno himself seem locked into the same universal brain throbbing like a nuclear beast at the heart of this remarkable journey.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs