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Pigon / Marcel Dettmann - (Kamm / Plain) [Beatstreet] (buy)

The latest offering from Berlin’s underground Beatstreet label comes courtesy from two of the best within their particular niche. BS03 sees Pigon (Rndm & Efdemin) & Berghain resident Marcel Dettmann on a excellent split techno EP which should have the purist in you running riot at Hard Wax to get a copy before it sells out. First up are Oliver Kargl & Phillip Sollmann aka (Pigon) with a fantastic trippy techno track titled “Kamm”.

Kamm is a tight, metallic -minimal techno track that’s packed full of hidden depth, deep with intricateness & much more. It comes in with deep tinkling cow bells a razor sharp synthline and a throbbing heartbeat style bassline all of which has been packed into a very tight space using the most intricate of methods. The bassline changes to more of a warm synth and in come some minute melodies that over lap each other in a swirling drip drop style motion its as if you have left the tap on and water is constantly dripping of the ceramic bowl & gliding down the plug hole in slow motion and sound. The middle of the track breaks down with that deeply strung and razor sharp synth line which is accompanied by the incoming & quite menacing deepness of that dance floor destroying bassline that simply destroys everything in its path. Those metallic melodies take a change in pace & start to swirl uncontrollably in a vortex style motion, the track starts to build and build until eventually exploding. There is so much to this record each time I listen I hear something new. An Extremely well produced piece of techno that’s full of intricate melodies a huge breakdown and some sinister synths. Hearing this (in full) on a funktion1 would make my year.

Marcel Dettmann’s “Plain” eases you in with some static white noise and a devastating kick drum that when dropped at the right moment you could quite easily be in Berlin at silly o clock listening to the man himself. The kick drum is the main focus here which Dettmann uses much to his advantage everything else that comes in - the Berghain style shuffled percussion & the warm techno synths are all wrapped tightly around the Kick and the result is quite huge. Very pure and Dettmann like if you enjoyed his MDR04 release earlier this year I have a sneaky suspicion you will enjoy this too. A killer 12″.

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