This week’s long-distance stunner comes courtesy of this hot new label, featuring Tom Pooks from Montpelier on something of a masterpiece which is then complimented by a pair of remixes which couldn’t be more sympathetic. The original’s one of simple affairs which builds gradually to awesome proportions, rather like a hippo’s penis. On a Richter scale of techno carnage it could be up there with 90s Hawtin as a relentless, high-tensile pulse-groove kicks into gear then elevated via subtly-introduced acid as the sinister vocoder voice intones the title. Then Underwater’s Jamie McHugh turns in a very 90s-flavoured turbo-throbber with woodblock percussion and its own take on the tracks’ killer momentum. If this wasn’t enough, Koijah takes an entirely different route which is no less jawdropping as eerie drones swell and crash over Latin percussion while the voice [William Burroughs?] intones from the depths and an unexpected but masterstroke piano riff slams in. One of the best records of 2008 so far.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs