- Jensen Interceptor has his fingers in an unlikely spread of pies. He makes nonthreatening lo-fi house in the duo Anthony Fade, with fellow Australian Brendan Zacharias (AKA Assembler Code). He keys into the electro revival with post-Drexciya pastiche for the CPU label. And he's popped up on Boysnoize Records making full-bore party music. Jensen brings a particular touch to these varied projects. He's not a formula-buster, but he has an ear for rock-solid club tools, balancing precision engineering with just the right whiff of intrigue. This collaboration with Zacharias for Moscow's Private Persons pulls the trick off nicely, its cone-busting electro bangers hitting a sweet spot between antisocial mulch and ruthless dance floor utility.
"Drum Rack," as you might expect, is a celebration of a killer beat. It snarls, throbs and heaves with distortion, the odd cowbell and cold chill of sound design swooping past in the chaos. Elsewhere the distortion dials down and restrained chords breathe space into the music's cramped spaces. "Pipe" is solid, especially when its saturated 808s start cuffing you round the ears. "Natural Control" is even better. There's something in its simple but slick mechanics—rubbery delays, a big kick drum, terse bleeps—that makes it irresistible. The EP's only letdown is "F5," an acid-techno charger whose 303s and breakbeat clatter lack that scalpel-sharp edge.
TracklistA1 Drum Rack
A2 Pipe
B1 Natural Control
B2 F5