- It's only fitting that Seppuku Records, named after a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment, should seek to "explore the haunted backlots of techno and electronica." On his Facebook page, Acharné, the Berlin-based producer who inaugurates the label, uses similar language to describe his output ("abandonded backlots," "the restless spirit of eternal return"), suggesting close ties to the imprint.
For all the talk of eeriness, "Warm Crisco" sets off at a buoyant pace. A tenacious bassline charges across resonant kicks, which uphold a hazy layer of calls and pads. "Ghostling," the EP's other, better club track, stands closer by the label's MO, setting taut snarls and mechanized slashes over a burly framework. But it's on "Doubt" and "Undoing" that we get a real vision of Acharné's dark and decaying world. The former lays a black cloud of pads and hoarse vocals over a steadfast synth line, while the latter closes out the release with a wall of muted foghorns, punctuated only by an interlude of piercing shrills. Both of these beatless tracks are an uneasy, if not uninteresting, listen.
Tracklist01. Warm Crisco
02. Doubt
03. Ghostling
04. Undoing