- Eerie and hard-hitting experimental club music from MM and Suda on Tzusing's label.
- The title phrase of MM and Suda's new EP—which seems to be taken from an eerie copypasta of unknown provenance—repeats throughout its five tracks, a motif that adds a sense of foreboding to the duo's already dark club music. It also feels rather cinematic. Launching with "Gen," with its horror-tinged metallic strings and dramatic drum rolls, the EP unfolds like an adventure. The duo use heaving, unpredictable club music to tell an abstract story with the heft of a mini-album rather than an EP.
After "Gen," It's Pulling My Strings crash-lands into sludgy trap held down by remarkably heavy bass, before "Bad Gateway" pulls things into straightforward dance floor territory. This one is techno with a self-destructive bent, eventually accelerating into oblivion for a self-immolating climax. The duo use larger-than-life genres as tools for melodrama, like with the driving trance of "Evangel," whose rushing arpeggios bring to mind both PC Music's Life Sim and a very dark night at a very intense party—proper headrush stuff. The EP closes with "Optimist Settings," which is appropriately uplifting, with plucked strings that take the listener out of the nightmare they've been plunged in. It's a dark night of the soul as told through drill, trance, trap and techno, from two producers who wield drums like paintbrushes on a canvas. No wonder they've ended up as regulars on Tzusing's Sea Cucumber label.
Tracklist01. Gen
02. Rover
03. Bad Gateway
04. Evangel
05. Optimist Settings