Strong collaborative album from UK techno veterans James Ruskin and Mark Boom. You know you're in good hands with this duo - Ruskin in particular excels at album-length projects - and The Light Box is sterling stuff from beginning to end. Much of the album - notably 'Antiarc', 'Guv 1' and 'Pinhead' - ploughs a twitchy furrow between Ae/AFX-style IDM and austere dubstep rhythm mechanics, but we're left in no doubt that this is TECHNO first and foremost: 'Ax' and 'The Quick And The Dead' recall the hydraulic syncopations of Ruskin and Regis's O/V/R material, while 'Mas' is stripped warehouse fodder at its finest. All the same, there's no doubt that the best cuts are the boldest: 'Morning Blues' and 'Guv 3' head deep into greyed-out industrial zones, but they do so on an almost UKG flex. Remixes from Deadhand and Plaid (in vivid, dynamically stepping mode) round out a truly formidable package.
View more
Strong collaborative album from UK techno veterans James Ruskin and Mark Boom. You know you're in good hands with this duo - Ruskin in particular excels at album-length projects - and The Light Box is sterling stuff from beginning to end. Much of the album - notably 'Antiarc', 'Guv 1' and 'Pinhead' - ploughs a twitchy furrow between Ae/AFX-style IDM and austere dubstep rhythm mechanics, but we're left in no doubt that this is TECHNO first and foremost: 'Ax' and 'The Quick And The Dead' recall the hydraulic syncopations of Ruskin and Regis's O/V/R material, while 'Mas' is stripped warehouse fodder at its finest. All the same, there's no doubt that the best cuts are the boldest: 'Morning Blues' and 'Guv 3' head deep into greyed-out industrial zones, but they do so on an almost UKG flex. Remixes from Deadhand and Plaid (in vivid, dynamically stepping mode) round out a truly formidable package.
Strong collaborative album from UK techno veterans James Ruskin and Mark Boom. You know you're in good hands with this duo - Ruskin in particular excels at album-length projects - and The Light Box is sterling stuff from beginning to end. Much of the album - notably 'Antiarc', 'Guv 1' and 'Pinhead' - ploughs a twitchy furrow between Ae/AFX-style IDM and austere dubstep rhythm mechanics, but we're left in no doubt that this is TECHNO first and foremost: 'Ax' and 'The Quick And The Dead' recall the hydraulic syncopations of Ruskin and Regis's O/V/R material, while 'Mas' is stripped warehouse fodder at its finest. All the same, there's no doubt that the best cuts are the boldest: 'Morning Blues' and 'Guv 3' head deep into greyed-out industrial zones, but they do so on an almost UKG flex. Remixes from Deadhand and Plaid (in vivid, dynamically stepping mode) round out a truly formidable package.
Out of Stock
Strong collaborative album from UK techno veterans James Ruskin and Mark Boom. You know you're in good hands with this duo - Ruskin in particular excels at album-length projects - and The Light Box is sterling stuff from beginning to end. Much of the album - notably 'Antiarc', 'Guv 1' and 'Pinhead' - ploughs a twitchy furrow between Ae/AFX-style IDM and austere dubstep rhythm mechanics, but we're left in no doubt that this is TECHNO first and foremost: 'Ax' and 'The Quick And The Dead' recall the hydraulic syncopations of Ruskin and Regis's O/V/R material, while 'Mas' is stripped warehouse fodder at its finest. All the same, there's no doubt that the best cuts are the boldest: 'Morning Blues' and 'Guv 3' head deep into greyed-out industrial zones, but they do so on an almost UKG flex. Remixes from Deadhand and Plaid (in vivid, dynamically stepping mode) round out a truly formidable package.