Anyone who remembers a time when the black horse would crash down the door on a weekly basis, donker aloft, heralding the label’s latest slice of electronic epoch-making will rummage in their strides with delight over this absolute killer from DJs Dan Foat [also the label’s A&R man] and Nathan Boddy. Yes, it’s R&S doing nothing less than unleashing a classic in the style of their early 90s golden age, maybe recalling ‘The Age Of Love’ in its tension-building stretches but only as a launch-pad for it’s pulsating web of Detroit swells and chattering, fisting sequences all laced with extra-terrestrial counter-melodies. The flip’s ‘Geo’ whips up a contagious turbo-groove with stabs and electro-blips which would be enough in itself but then brings in a heart-stopping synth melody recalling so many great DJ sets in the early 90s where anyone from Weatherall to Slam would change lives forever with tackle like this. [They had to, otherwise I wouldn’t be blathering on about it!]. This pair have already appeared elsewhere as Foat and Boddy on Mule Electronic while Nathan has been about for seven years as Office Gossip, amongst other projects. But this is their main concern now, and so it should be. Both tracks are boundary-pushing techno monsters which raise the bar for sonic whoopee by referencing a mighty sound which many thought was dead then taking it on. There’ll be no letting go of this Chain, go ahead pull it, etc etc.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
