It is like techno with a triphop sound: not so dark as rather introvert, slow to mid tempo, bass-dominated, some vocals but often just words.
Bicep – Bicep
Electronic dance music from the UK on Ninja Tunes.
Lingua Ignota – All Bitches Die
Death industrial opera.
Clutch – Book of Bad Decisions
New Clutch album, does what it has to.
Skee Mask – Compro
From ambient to rhythmic noise to breakbeat.
Miss Red – K.O.
Dubstep bass-and-beats with an MC focus. For the first listen I wasn’t aware that it was produced by The Bug, still I was quite aware. Nice flow, well done words.
Transplants – Transplants
I am re-listening this one from 2002. Just as the first track hits me, I can hardly imagine how huge of a smasher this could have been back at the time of release. I was a late arrival to the Transplants but I wish being in that crowd on their album launch tour who are listening to this shit as new and live. They must have gone crazy.
The Interrupters – Fight the Good Fight
It’s one of those instant classic records, which have the real potential to become timeless. Could have happened any time in the past decade and will probably sound the same a decade from now. Huge ska punk-rock summer hit parade all over.
Repetitor – Gde ćeš
Low-fi-alt-garage-rock-indie-post-punk from Belgrade. This is the band in your next door basement that you hear at night and would like to see them in your favorite venue.
Phase Fatale – Reverse Fall
RA writes “Hayden Payne’s records package the lunging ferocity of EBM and industrial into a sound you could loosely describe as techno.” Ex-act-ly what I had in mind, all these three cornerstones just like that. I also like the idea that this came through Ostgut Ton.