Berlin's Positive Centre pays up on the slow techno promise of his early 12"s with this focused and powerful debut album for Sigha's label. On paper/screen it works to a seductive concept - decelerating industrial techno back to its temporal roots in EBM and New Beat - that proves itself in physical reality with a "blend of extreme momentum and forced introspection." Never raising its head above 115bpm, he divides a palette of squashed kicks, wide bass and polluted atmospheres across ten tracks, each as bleak and unrelenting as the next but also peppered with moments of pellucid relief from the murk, and often with a rugged hip hop crack and swing that defies its 4/4 linearity. We'd file it all right next to that small but expanding nexus of 120bpm-and-under techno from Kareem, Fishermen, CUB, Low Jack…
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Berlin's Positive Centre pays up on the slow techno promise of his early 12"s with this focused and powerful debut album for Sigha's label. On paper/screen it works to a seductive concept - decelerating industrial techno back to its temporal roots in EBM and New Beat - that proves itself in physical reality with a "blend of extreme momentum and forced introspection." Never raising its head above 115bpm, he divides a palette of squashed kicks, wide bass and polluted atmospheres across ten tracks, each as bleak and unrelenting as the next but also peppered with moments of pellucid relief from the murk, and often with a rugged hip hop crack and swing that defies its 4/4 linearity. We'd file it all right next to that small but expanding nexus of 120bpm-and-under techno from Kareem, Fishermen, CUB, Low Jack…
Berlin's Positive Centre pays up on the slow techno promise of his early 12"s with this focused and powerful debut album for Sigha's label. On paper/screen it works to a seductive concept - decelerating industrial techno back to its temporal roots in EBM and New Beat - that proves itself in physical reality with a "blend of extreme momentum and forced introspection." Never raising its head above 115bpm, he divides a palette of squashed kicks, wide bass and polluted atmospheres across ten tracks, each as bleak and unrelenting as the next but also peppered with moments of pellucid relief from the murk, and often with a rugged hip hop crack and swing that defies its 4/4 linearity. We'd file it all right next to that small but expanding nexus of 120bpm-and-under techno from Kareem, Fishermen, CUB, Low Jack…
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Berlin's Positive Centre pays up on the slow techno promise of his early 12"s with this focused and powerful debut album for Sigha's label. On paper/screen it works to a seductive concept - decelerating industrial techno back to its temporal roots in EBM and New Beat - that proves itself in physical reality with a "blend of extreme momentum and forced introspection." Never raising its head above 115bpm, he divides a palette of squashed kicks, wide bass and polluted atmospheres across ten tracks, each as bleak and unrelenting as the next but also peppered with moments of pellucid relief from the murk, and often with a rugged hip hop crack and swing that defies its 4/4 linearity. We'd file it all right next to that small but expanding nexus of 120bpm-and-under techno from Kareem, Fishermen, CUB, Low Jack…