Living Techno

I was looking, and i finally found something brilliant for this cool wednesday, it is that Luke Slater is putting out a double EP entitled "Straight Shooting" under his Planetary Assault Systems moniker which will be out March 1st via his label Mote-Evolver on 2x12” and digital formats.

Actually Planetary Assault Systems is in my toplist of favorite producers, i mean it, and you can listen to this forthcoming releases and see why i'm right on this one.

Getting to the point, for me this kind of news definitely fixes my day. So go ahead and listen, Luke Slater has shared on soundcloud hiw unreleased track "Engage Now".

Listen to MOTE055 - Planetary Assault Systems - Engage Now on SoundCloud:

Following his most recent album 'Arc Angel’ on Ostgut Ton in 2016 (his third full-length on the Berghain label), Slater (as PAS) also released iconic series of EPs on Mote-Evolver and his three albums on Peacefrog in the late 90s and 00s. Last year he also released the monumental vinyl boxset ‘Chronicles’ under The 7th Plain alias on A-TON.

Overview. Fresh off much essential reissues of his seminal debut album for Peacefrog, 'The Electric Funk Machine', and the initially 2017-released 'The Light Years Reworks', which featured an incredible cast of remixers, UK techno mastermind Luke Slater resurfaces as Planetary Assault Systems with a crisp double-package of his signature deep-rolling, hypnotic big-room churners. As its name suggests, 'Straight Shooting' takes no byway to get its point across.

Lifting off with the bleepy, outerspacey thrust of 'Beam Rider', Slater's new outing stings like a straight-out nasty shot of adrenaline right in the ticker. Going for the jugular with its ever impactful mix of pummeling kicks, bloodthirsty bass combers and frenzied electronics blinking like signals freshly emerged from a long drift across cold, hostile wormholes, PAS further proves he navigates in a parallel dimension of his own. Although familiar in essence, the chassis of the tracks remains distinctively unique with cuts like 'Born Anchors' and 'Engage Now' moving away from the calibrated number category, whilst finely blurring the line between explosiveness and self-discipline, which makes them perfect for near-peaktime moments of transition in a set.

Proper muscular bangers are nevertheless the kernel of it all here, and sure to steer the crowd into ecstasy on automatic pilot. If 'Humans Use Concrete' blazes with the wild stomp of Slater's most incisive classics and 'Bear Bones' guides its listener into a trippy excursion across hyperspace loops and alien inner territories, it's 'Give It Up' that harnesses the storm with its playful mix of sliced-and-diced vox fragments, rabid toms, skittish hats and freq-shifting synth whines sure to cut a path of destruction into the club. If an extra-terrestrial invasion of planet Earth was on the agenda, no doubt Slater would be appointed soundtrack composer in chief. Deadly as it gets, 'Straight Shooting' holes it in one.

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Artist. Planetary Assault Systems

Title. Straight Shooting

Format: 2x12” / Digital

Label: Mote-Evolver

Cat. No: MOTE055

Release Date: March 1st, 2019

Tracklist.

A1 / 1. Beam Rider

B1 / 2. Born Anchors

B2 / 3. Humans Use Concrete

C1 / 4. Engage Now

D1 / 5. Bear Bones

D2 / 6. Give It Up Digi Bonus. Screen (Rework)

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There is a certain kind of good art that basically speaks for itself, in the case of Buenos Aires-born, Barcelona-based techno producer Pfirter, this is confirmed at all. Take your time people, and get into the next upcoming experimental techno release of the year. Pushing his sound further into leftfield-leaning horizons and textured atmospheric reliefs, Pfirter's highly-anticipated debut long-player 'The Empty Space' finds its space already.

Watch Pfirter's "The Empty Space" [MT20] on youtube:

With over fifty records under his belt, you only can expect big things when it come to Pfirter, that's because we just want you to listen the whole release and of course, get it, because its a banger in all kind of ways. This upcoming release is composed of eleven tracks, all of them takes you to a completely different trip, hard techno, deep techno, hypnotic heavy sounds, warm melodies, and a lot of more outstandings creations. This could be probably a top release of 2019, for sure.

We agreed on something, this tracks combine with a “a state of focus and attention purely into music and creation, which relates a lot to meditation in a way”, so get into it, 'The Empty Space' will be out on March 8th via MindTrip.

Overview. Incepted over a decade ago, the career of Buenos Aires-born, Barcelona-based techno producer Pfirter has mostly been bound to the dancefloor and its direct vicinity ever since. Yet, through a complex meshwork of profound atmospheres and passive-aggresive rhythmic experiments, the Argentinian producer has always made a point of infusing his compositions into the kind of long-lasting dubby flavours and penetrating ambient emanations that go well beyond the mere ‘banging’ attributes and other calibrated apparatus of sorts generally attached to club-focused electronics.

Pfirter’s uniquely broad-minded vision finds a further compelling expression on his highly anticipated debut long-player, ‘The Empty Space’, due out early 2019. With over fifty records under his belt, including original EPs, splits, remixes and compilations on various labels, the MindTrip head honcho was yet to go the full-length route, a key step towards further artistic accomplishment he’s now taken with eleven cuts that defy the unflinching 4/4 orthodoxy.

Here Pfirter weaves his wide array of influences across a pulsating delta of dark grooves and shapeshifting atmospherics, steering across sonic rapids with poise and panache. From the false quiet of gloomy lakeshores and riverbanks to post-industrial cityscapes, through barren no-go zones and tiny basements packed to the rafters, the album takes you for a much immersive odyssey across Pfirter’s own “empty space”: a concept he explains to be not a place but “a state of focus and attention purely into music and creation, which relates a lot to meditation in a way”.

Inspired by physics, sci-fi and Lovecraftian flicks, amongst many other things, Pfirter’s inaugural LP is a Protean object by essence, recorded during night sessions to keep his creative flow as pure as possible and not suffer the usual daytime distractions. Multi-faceted yet cohesive, ‘The Empty Space’ is also a record that revolves around the experience of the voyage itself rather than the destination, hence its favours for transformative processes and mutant constructions. Propelling its listener in a world of multiversical audio geometry and whelming ambiences, Pfirter creates a totally idiosyncratic headspace away from the techno’s usual norms and standards. Variations instead of translations, in-between flux instead of clot-like hits.

Don’t get this wrong, ‘The Empty Space’ has its dancy sequences – there’s plenty of them actually, but it’s also innervated by graceful moments of freedom and sudden drifts into pensive musical terrains that the single 12″ format can’t waste time bearing into the limelights. Tracks like ‘The Empty Space’, ‘Note To Self’, ‘Isolation’, ‘New Physics’ will sure make an instant impact on the floor but then the second half of the album clearly veers off into something more personal for Pfirter, putting on display a much deeper introspective facet of his craft that largely sublimates the whole. A work of maturity anchored in the vibrancy of the moment, ‘The Empty Space’ throbs with a vital pulse that acutely transcends all categories and genres, as Pfirter adroitly recombines techno’s DNA into something truly and definitely his own.

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