HO! EP

In a bid to make the first release on their freshly minted Philoxenia label stand out, Neu Verboten and Luigi Di Venere have turned to the invaluable experience of Steve Marie, a Paris-based Corsican producer known for his heady blends of techno, EBM and trance. It’s a smart move, because Ho! hits home hard from the word go. Marie first offers some retro-futurist flavour in the shape of the bass-heavy, 1990 bleep and breaks style weight of the acid-flecked title track, before combining his EBM and neo-trance fascinations on the chiming and creepy ‘Devil Inside’. He retains the deep bass and razor-sharp TB-303 motifs on laidback and angular electro number ‘Romanee Conti’, before puffing his chest out on trance-inducing, faintly foreboding late-night throb-job ‘Trancia’.