- A gorgeous Detroit-style B-side from the legendary Steve Rachmad gets remastered.
- Put on any track from Steve Rachmad's classic 1994 album The Secret Life Of Machines and try not to get lost in the feels. For the past 20 years, Rachmad has worked on refining that formula—mechanical funk that gives way to meditative melancholy (the title of an EP from last year, Light In The Darkness, gives a sense of where he's at). But when you've been at it as long as Rachmad has, some of your best tracks are bound to get lost in the ash heap of history. Luckily, Delsin's latest reissue has recovered one of his. "Teknitron" was originally released in 1995 under his Black Scorpion alias, and starts deep and dubby with delayed claps and Basic Channel-style chords. But then Rachmad redirects us to Detroit with a gorgeous and brittle second wave-style arpeggio. This is the sort of vintage techno that still sounds like it's being beamed back from a (heartbroken) alien future.