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BMB 002CD
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Regis and Surgeon's pivotal British Murder Boys, one of techno's greatest, shake up and recombine bleeding edge contemporary techno with provocative, enduring industrial inspirations from Throbbing Gristle and Coil. Cutting across the face of their catalog, from the incendiary opening sample of Jim Jones used in "Hate Is Such a Strong Word", through a crunching iteration of "As Above So Below", and back to their definitive early statement "Don't Give Way To Fear" via various hacked and processed BMB components, the decorated veterans invariably make mincemeat of the shouty dilettantes who have committed to this arena in recent years. Karl O'Connor mans the mic, swaggering around Anthony Child's shredded drum patterns and egging on the intensity, but also knowing when to wind his neck in and stop short of the sort of the showboating industrial clichés that drove dancers from industrial to techno in their droves during the early-mid '90s. In essence, the decorated veterans' sense of seething restraint, coupled with deadly conviction and technical expertise, makes Fire In The Still Air a definitive BMB set for the ages, one ready and willing to trigger a riot anytime. Just don't call it a comeback. Recorded at Berlin Atonal 08/24/18. CD comes in six-panel digipak.
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CBX 012EP
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2018 repress; originally released in 2005. "Typical of BMB's malevolent programming genius: each percussion hit feels at once like it's a million miles away and inside your skull, the drum patterns at once spaced-out and throat-tighteningly claustrophobic. Looking back to the Latin swing Surgeon brought to classic solo productions like 'La Real', and looking forward to the swung minimalism that Regis would perfect on his contributions to the Sandwell District catalogue, 'All The Saints Have Been Hung' is the simplest, most confident and arguably most potent track in BMB history." --FACT, "The Essential... British Murder Boys"
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CBX 010EP
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2018 repress; originally released in 2003. "The two untitled tracks on Don't Give Way To Fear showcase what Surgeon and Regis do best: build breakbeats that complicate and intensify a techno track's 4/4 momentum, without weighing or slowing it down. Hell, they fit more energy and incident into a 4-bar phrase than your average minimal-monkey manages in a career. The bolshy, brutal rhythm and sandpapery coarseness of the sound design around it is matched with a deft sense of spatial arrangement and emphasis -- not since the days of Mark Stewart + The Maffia have barely suppressed violence and and a trippy, dubwise sensibility worked so naturally and effectively together." --FACT, "The Essential... British Murder Boys"
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CBX 009EP
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2018 repress; originally released in 2003. All tracks written and produced by Surgeon and Regis. "['Learn Your Lesson' is] one of the most instantly recognisable BMB tunes, and arguably one of the least typical: Regis contributes spoken, reverb-submerged vocals (a tendency that he'd elaborate on in the duo's live shows), affecting a register somewhere between Whitehouse-ish, hate-filled tirade and downcast psycho at the busstop murmuring conspiratorially to himself, before a Basic Channel-esque breakdown lets in the closest thing to sunlight you'll ever encounter in the unwaveringly bleak world of BMB." --FACT, "The Essential... British Murder Boys"
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