- If you've watched Sunil Sharpe's Quarterly Crate sessions you'll see he's a fount of musical knowledge with a digger's passion to match. If you've listened to a mix of his—or better yet, seen him play—you'll experience the knowledge and passion come together with some serious flair. His productions have tended towards the heavier side, but as an advocate of variety and ever weirder strains of techno, his On The Hoof label is where his maniacal and more whacky intentions make interesting bedfellows.
HOOF003, then, is business as usual: four ardent techno monsters with quirky kinks. "Sligeach" is the most industrious of the lot, sounding properly like metal clinking upon metal and taking absolutely no prisoners. It uses what might have been a vocal sample once—now, it's an ambiguous growling sound that gnaws away in the background. "Wierdeschamler" is cut from the same cloth, but "Ribbons" is a shift towards the peculiar. Bubbles, buzzes and bleeps abound in the perky number, albeit in an amphetamine-induced, up-all-night sort of way. Which makes "Liengen" seem like the gruesome aftermath, crashing down to earth with strange, distorted sounds.
TracklistA1 Wierdeschamler
A2 Sligeach
B1 Ribbons
B2 Liengen