Emptyset - Altogether Lost

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  • The Bristol-based duo of James Ginzburg (perhaps known best recently for his neon-filament collaborations with Joker) and Paul Purgas make a return with this one-off on CLR, ahead of an alleged new album. "Altogether Lost" sees Emptyset rejuvenated and reinvigorated, a dormant corpse artificially reanimated with sizzling bolts of electricity. In fact, that's the defining feature of the song. "Altogether Lost" is a bit like sticking a fork in an electrical socket and seeing what kind of incantations come pouring out of your frazzled frame. In this case, the guinea pig is Underground Resistance vocalist Cornelius Harris, who spouts apocalyptic rhetoric with demonic ferocity, echoing and flickering over snarling threads of digital distortion that bleed through stuttering drum hits until the static nearly eclipses the entire track. Chris Liebing more than doubles the short track's length with his remix, channeling the original's cresting waves of fuzz into compacted, pummeling hits that knock the track off its own path, limping forward in a staggered lurch that feels about as far removed from techno as you can get. It's an interesting move for CLR as the label continues with noisier territory, gathering the loose ends of the label's roots and influences and throwing them together in a volatile, boiling concoction of early-industrial menace and Raster-Noton digital austerity.
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      A Altogether Lost B Altogether Lost (Chris Liebing Remix}
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