Pris - Unbeknown To Us

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  • A full house of unknowns here: both the anonymous producer Pris and the label Resin are, at the time of writing, yet to leave their stain on Google. But the four tracks on Unbeknown To Us—the debut for both artist and label—have been catching the ear of harder UK techno DJs, and it's easy to see why. "Blind," in particular, owes much to the industrial techno canon. Pris is entirely proficient at the form—there's a neat feint after the breakdown, which makes the return of the distorted kicks all the more satisfying—but he does little to elevate himself above the many other artists treading these boards in 2013. "Dust" is less aggro but more acutely hallucinatory; the pleasure is observing the way its single-note melody twists in the murk. "Scuff" is built on trilling snares in the vein of Plastikman's "Spastik," though they never quite emerge, preferring to lurk at the edge of focus. "A Certain Body" is the obligatory beatless track, its ghostly reverberance and sub-bass throb sounding like, well, plenty of other moody soundscape pieces on techno 12-inches in recent months.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Blind A2 A Certain Body B1 Scuff B2 Dust
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