MBDC 12″

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UK Techno heavyweight Mark Broom and Berlin’s Discrete Circuit have teamed up before – but this is their first fully-fledged collaboration aimed squarely at conveying just how well this combination works. A heavy hitting merger from both sides of the channel, boldly stating that form follows function.

The A side opens with a superbly engineered kick and counterpoint texture that allows for an otherworldly synth to slowly worm it’s way out of the abyss. Frequencies open and shut to allow for the exact exchange of energy welcome in the mix. With no trickery, and at just the right moment, a pulsating binary hook reveals itself in the track and guarantees the desired effect. The A2 tilts the hat toward a stripped back motor city influence. Groovy, tooly, slightly dissonant. Blips, claps, punctuation where it works. Just the right shade of reverb and modulation, push and pull in the arrangement, reveal the versatility of the track and round out the opening side with punch. The flip side, and third track from the collab is also direct, firing up with the ubiquitous clap on the one. Looping acid and a purist minor stab alongside sizzling hats and rides force the energy ever upward. The break is needed as the expertly air drenched acid line opens up the whole space before driving back down into the intensity for the remainder of the cut. The final track of the EP features a remix of the B1 by Astray’s other in-house producer, H4L. Back with a frenetic, broken, idm influenced belter of a remix with scattered and distorted 808’s – all reigned in cohesively with some stellar beat science and gnarly touches. These 4 numbers are built for impact.

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SKU: ASTRAY002.1