Kevin Gorman - Mikrowave 12

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  • Following on from his three part Elements series, Kevin Gorman rounds off 2009 in fine style with Mikrowave 12, a release that shares the responsibility of proto-industrial beat production by recruiting two of the scene's current heavy hitters Peter van Hoesen and Pendle Coven's MLZ. The continental lowlands have long been a techno haven, and van Hoesen is currently their most accomplished practitioner of the dark arts of the dance floor. MLZ and Gorman, meanwhile, hail from fair Albion, and together represent two of the ancient isle's latest hopes in a genre that has never taken hold of its native public as hoped. With an obvious nod to dubstep, Peter Van Hoesen's remix of "Cyclic" is a dense, organic-sounding piece of machine funk, whose energy is suppressed within constitutive beats. MLZ's take on "Nearly" doesn't differ that much from Van Hoesen's contribution, as both tracks utilise the accumulated dirt and fuzz of the studio to create a noise that on one level is sharp, but on another not quite clean. "Cyclic" is the sound of dubbed out circuitry fizzing and farting, while "Nearly" keeps to a more conventional and ethereal beat. Gorman's "Shakey Stripped" sounds relatively conventional by comparison, but it's still a very accomplished piece of reductive funk. Paced expertly, it's a well-textured journey to the heart of the bass. "Shakey Metallic Beats" is exactly what it says it is, creating in the listener a feeling of insect unrest. Both versions show off the different ends of the metal machine music scale and operate at a generally higher end to the remixes.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Cyclic (Peter Van Hoesen Remix) A2 Shakey Stripped B1 Nearly (MLZ Remix) B2 Shakey Metallic Beats
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