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TOKEN 100EP
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Token celebrates its 100th release with Luke Slater, a legend of the genre, releasing under one of his most iconic aliases: Planetary Assault Systems. For over 25 years, Slater has delivered unparalleled quality in his music -- a formative figure in Techno and instrumental in defining the sound globally, few can touch the Brit for depth, urgency and hit rate. Exhibiting near enough perfect renditions of classic dance-floor moods, the four track EP is a wrought iron rollercoaster through some of the artist's most exacting work. Booming opener "Bang Wap" chugs unrelentingly while a lithe FX line does the bulk of the movement in the high mid-range -- building tension before a satisfying release in the last quarter. "Bolt" is classic Planetary Assault Systems -- hypnotic and driving with a single sequence dipping in and out of view. On the flip, "Say It Loud" could be an idiosyncratic hit waiting to happen -- dry and tight in the drum department for maximum effect, and featuring a recurring vocal sample chopped and skewed for tension. Closer "Shine" takes a deeper, more psychedelic route with shades of the classic, jacking Detroit sound in the pitch bent lead line, but maintains the energy throughout with stylish delay sends upping the ante where required, all in all delivering a neat finish to the EP.
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TOKEN 103LP
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Double LP version. Luke Slater presents Sky Scraping, a new Planetary Assault Systems album. Slater first minted the PAS alias in '93. Since then, a slew of singles and LPs from the industrious artist have made sure Planetary Assault Systems has become a byword for hypnotic, funk-heavy techno in a purist tradition. Toeing the line between heady, psychedelic material and all out main room fare -- Slater's work as PAS captures the very best facets of the genre, with economically selected parts exquisitely arranged and engineered with a shrewd and uncompromising ear for what really makes people move. Sky Scraping is a loud and unabashed celebration of the formative and familiar environments so loved by the electronic music community, the dark clubs and festivals made special by their unique ability to bring like-minded people together. Sky Scraping kicks off in characteristically dense, psychedelic fashion with "Labstract" -- a slice of classic PAS with cavernous low-end and a tight, looping sequence doing the driving work while frenetic drum machine cuts and wide-angle synth sirens shift the track onwards from one phase to the next. Follow up "One For The Groove" showcases the chunkier side of Slater's production as PAS with an infectious 909 pattern propelled on in the high mids by a squelching synth patch. "Bang Wap" revisits the artist's last outing on Token -- a monstrous, unforgiving roller designed with peak time in mind. "Say It Loud" -- the idiosyncratic proto-anthem that accompanied "Bang Wap" earlier in the year leads the LP onwards, before segueing into new recording "Give In" -- a masterclass in dense, funky, face-melting techno. Drums take centerstage on "If I Die", as the artist returns to the 909 for a marginally slowed down cut that really highlights the artist's connection to and natural affinity with groove and drum machine cuts. Coal thrusts the listener straight back down the wormhole -- an extraordinary, driving piece propelled by a guttural lead synth sequence and ghostly drums, before giving way to "Run" -- a dry, pared back recording with plucked, staccato synths that makes for a good contrast to its fathom's deep predecessor. Though not without moments of hysteria in its closing quarter, "The Drag Train", featuring a classic, more mono finish begins the wind down towards the album's close. "Nano Chameleon" ties up Sky Scraping, a track as forceful as anything that has come earlier on the record -- as it approaches its close, a warping lead powers the recording home with shuffling white noise percussion dipping in and out of the sonic main stage before giving way to a delicate, controlled chaos.
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Luke Slater presents Sky Scraping, a new Planetary Assault Systems album. Slater first minted the PAS alias in '93. Since then, a slew of singles and LPs from the industrious artist have made sure Planetary Assault Systems has become a byword for hypnotic, funk-heavy techno in a purist tradition. Toeing the line between heady, psychedelic material and all out main room fare -- Slater's work as PAS captures the very best facets of the genre, with economically selected parts exquisitely arranged and engineered with a shrewd and uncompromising ear for what really makes people move. Sky Scraping is a loud and unabashed celebration of the formative and familiar environments so loved by the electronic music community, the dark clubs and festivals made special by their unique ability to bring like-minded people together. Sky Scraping kicks off in characteristically dense, psychedelic fashion with "Labstract" -- a slice of classic PAS with cavernous low-end and a tight, looping sequence doing the driving work while frenetic drum machine cuts and wide-angle synth sirens shift the track onwards from one phase to the next. Follow up "One For The Groove" showcases the chunkier side of Slater's production as PAS with an infectious 909 pattern propelled on in the high mids by a squelching synth patch. "Bang Wap" revisits the artist's last outing on Token -- a monstrous, unforgiving roller designed with peak time in mind. "Say It Loud" -- the idiosyncratic proto-anthem that accompanied "Bang Wap" earlier in the year leads the LP onwards, before segueing into new recording "Give In" -- a masterclass in dense, funky, face-melting techno. Drums take centerstage on "If I Die", as the artist returns to the 909 for a marginally slowed down cut that really highlights the artist's connection to and natural affinity with groove and drum machine cuts. Coal thrusts the listener straight back down the wormhole -- an extraordinary, driving piece propelled by a guttural lead synth sequence and ghostly drums, before giving way to "Run" -- a dry, pared back recording with plucked, staccato synths that makes for a good contrast to its fathom's deep predecessor. Though not without moments of hysteria in its closing quarter, "The Drag Train", featuring a classic, more mono finish begins the wind down towards the album's close. "Nano Chameleon" ties up Sky Scraping, a track as forceful as anything that has come earlier on the record -- as it approaches its close, a warping lead powers the recording home with shuffling white noise percussion dipping in and out of the sonic main stage before giving way to a delicate, controlled chaos.
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OSTGUT 123EP
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As Planetary Assault Systems, Luke Slater is an innovator of psychedelic mindfuck techno. Across a lengthy catalog that stretches back into the '90s, the music's bleepy, polyrhythmic loops are as recognizable as they are genre-defining. Plantae is Slater's first release as PAS on Ostgut Ton since Arc Angel (OSTGUT 037CD/023LP, 2016) and covers the spectrum of PAS's different strains while remaining grounded in Slater's uncanny funk and knack for developing oblique melodies and rhythms over longer stretches. Deepness and hypnosis come as much through duration as sound design. For Slater, Plantae is made for Berghain, where he is a long-standing resident. In his own words: "I'm sure it's no surprise that when it comes to putting together a release on Ostgut Ton, PAS takes on its more mind-altering, otherworldly quality by natural cause, quietly reflecting the dark sweaty nights and days at the club; at the point, the common neural coupling, of us all together. PAS has been part of Berghain and Berghain part of PAS for a long time. All of these tracks needed to pass the Berghain test in my sets first stop."
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CORMIX 060CD
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2019's highly anticipated Live at Cocoon Ibiza mix is helmed by techno legend Luke Slater under his Planetary Assault Systems guise. As Planetary Assault Systems, UK titan Luke Slater has constantly laid down a blueprint for the future of techno. As a live performer he is a visionary who fuses mind melting minimalism, catchy cyborg funk and cinematic soundscapes that really take you on a trip. He did that once again back in July as part of Cocoon's 20th anniversary season and now the results are laid down on CD for the label to relive the magic. Over the course of eighty spellbinding minutes, Slater truly captivates with evocative sci-fi imagery and high-class melodic minimalism, smoothly shifting from moments of high-pressure drum-funk intensity to uplifting and spiritual passages of cosmic sound and back again. Along the way, he digs deep into his back catalog to serve up plenty of golden oldies as well as more contemporary cuts, and the whole thing melts together into a timeless set that explores the outer edges of techno with huge amounts of both style and substance.
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MOTE 055EP
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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, outer space-y 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 peak-time 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 vocal 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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MOTE 050EP
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On the compelling "Lazer Organical", listeners will find themselves in the midst of a testing range where thick arcs of coherent plasma ricochet off of the walls. On the mesmerizing bubblebath of "Random Kingdom", Luke Slater allows listeners to sink into the rising sonic foam before interjecting with some sharp metallic hits. "Desert Races" proceeds in similar fashion, weaving a web of luminous sequencer patterns around the listener before and cutting in with sudden fluctuations or distortions. "Life Rhythm", on the other hand, is a total immersion session in which Slater's presence seems to recede into the background.
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MOTE 003LP
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2018 repress. Having already unleashed a considerable amount of collaborative magic with the Planetary Funk: 22 Light Years series of remix EPs (MOTE 046EP, MOTE 047EP, 2016), Luke Slater upped the ante with six full sides worth of material, all of them injecting the spirit of classic Planetary Assault Systems into new sonic organisms. Using motifs from past P.A.S. successes, Luke Slater and his cohorts join here to make something radical and revitalizing: too cohesive for a "compilation album" and with too much autonomy granted to the guest remixers to be a simple "tribute". Three of the tracks in the program are intense and captivating live re-workings from Slater himself, hurtling from the speakers with an apparent minimum of post-production polish and an optimal level of buzzing energy. While this on its own would make for a compelling listen, the album is also laden with contributions from an international assembly of electronic soul controllers (to wit: Marcel Fengler, Psyk, Lucy, Slam, Octave One, Function, and Kamikaze Space Programme). Fengler kicks off the proceedings with an ecstatic and lustrous rework of "Twelve", a melodic sunrise joining a synth pad massage to a locked-in and systematic rhythm. Psyk's own interpretation of the same track preserves the same insistence but applies it to a completely different time and place, driving the listener through a wilderness of coded signals and an ambiguous repetition of the title that sounds like it could be as much a warning as an indicator of progress. KSP's version of "Function 6" gradually builds a cyborg leitmotif from an overdriven martial beat and epileptic machine breakdowns. Sequencing this with Octave One's "Booster" rework is an ideal choice, as the squared-away EBM/electro-funk sequences and flanged hi-hats seem to refer to a different phase in the life cycle of the same machine. Function's "Diesel Drudge," on the other hand, moves from the machine world into a totally oneiric world typified by backwards-masked/time-traveling voices and a thick strobe-lit haze. Lucy's re-envisioning of "Surface Noise" is a no-nonsense tantric exercise in shedding preconceptions and inhibitions. Rounding out the collection is Steve Bicknell's "Raid" version - a breathing mosaic of rhythmic pulses and clattering objects - and Slam's characteristically intense modification of "Temporary Suspension," whose low-end sequences continually bubble and seethe yet never completely boil over. Comes on 180 gram clear vinyl; includes a download card.
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OSTGUT 037CD
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Luke Slater returns to Ostgut Ton with a Planetary Assault Systems album titled Arc Angel. Staying true to the project's initial mission statement, Slater comments on the new yet familiar musical direction: "For me, music has to go forward. I'd feel I was cheating by sticking to tried-and-tested formulas." With Arc Angel, Planetary Assault Systems departs to new musical frontiers by focusing on melody, but staying rooted in the purist values of techno. While the album title may sound like a reference to spiritual matters, it hints to rather secular affairs. Arc Angel is a postmodernist, non-comfortist techno album first and foremost. In the tradition of Slater's previous albums with Ostgut Ton - The Messenger (OSTGUT 010LP/020CD, 2011) and Temporary Suspension (OSTGUT 004LP/009CD, 2009) - its musical motifs radiate around polymorphic and extraterrestrial sounds, using contemporary instrumental language, but with an emphasis on compatible musical phrases. "With this album it was very much a case of limitation and focus around the idea of alternative melody," Slater says, "I love music that takes you somewhere new. All music for this album had to pass that test. At the same time I wanted to re-root the foundations of what I see as techno into that and focus on melody, rather than a track just being a beat." While there are nods to the past, Arc Angel aims for the future. There's shimmering sounds reminiscent of light beams being fired ("Tri Fn Trp"), pulsing signals in deep space ("Angel Of The East", "Sonar Falls", "Groucho") and rather harsh aesthetics ("The Last Scene"). Its melodic range includes hypnotic arrangements ("Merry Go Round", "Blue Monk"), distorted bells ("Revolution One"), rainbow noise and spatial effects - for the most part meshing with heavy kick drums ("Message From The Drone Sector", "The Rider"), sometimes using reduced beat patterns ("Max"), at times turning to repetitious loops, analog synth pads and alienated vocal bits ("Interlude 1 to 6"). Despite its musical richness, all gear had to fit onto a small table. "I love software, hardware, technology; but because we have almost endless choice of sound creating devices, it drove me to using very limited and focused equipment. Actually taking influences from the way an original blues guy... He has the guitar, the box and voice - I have the 909 and 808." Includes digital download of the single tracks and the continuous album mix.
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3x12" version. Includes digital download. Luke Slater returns to Ostgut Ton with a Planetary Assault Systems album titled Arc Angel. Staying true to the project's initial mission statement, Slater comments on the new yet familiar musical direction: "For me, music has to go forward. I'd feel I was cheating by sticking to tried-and-tested formulas." With Arc Angel, Planetary Assault Systems departs to new musical frontiers by focusing on melody, but staying rooted in the purist values of techno. While the album title may sound like a reference to spiritual matters, it hints to rather secular affairs. Arc Angel is a postmodernist, non-comfortist techno album first and foremost. In the tradition of Slater's previous albums with Ostgut Ton - The Messenger (OSTGUT 010LP/020CD, 2011) and Temporary Suspension (OSTGUT 004LP/009CD, 2009) - its musical motifs radiate around polymorphic and extraterrestrial sounds, using contemporary instrumental language, but with an emphasis on compatible musical phrases. "With this album it was very much a case of limitation and focus around the idea of alternative melody," Slater says, "I love music that takes you somewhere new. All music for this album had to pass that test. At the same time I wanted to re-root the foundations of what I see as techno into that and focus on melody, rather than a track just being a beat." While there are nods to the past, Arc Angel aims for the future. There's shimmering sounds reminiscent of light beams being fired ("Tri Fn Trp"), pulsing signals in deep space ("Angel Of The East", "Sonar Falls", "Groucho") and rather harsh aesthetics ("The Last Scene"). Its melodic range includes hypnotic arrangements ("Merry Go Round", "Blue Monk"), distorted bells ("Revolution One"), rainbow noise and spatial effects - for the most part meshing with heavy kick drums ("Message From The Drone Sector", "The Rider"), sometimes using reduced beat patterns ("Max"), at times turning to repetitious loops, analog synth pads and alienated vocal bits ("Interlude 1 to 6"). Despite its musical richness, all gear had to fit onto a small table. "I love software, hardware, technology; but because we have almost endless choice of sound creating devices, it drove me to using very limited and focused equipment. Actually taking influences from the way an original blues guy... He has the guitar, the box and voice - I have the 909 and 808." Includes digital download of the single tracks and the continuous album mix.
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MOTE 047EP
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Luke Slater delivers another new 12" with all of the purposeful intensity and sonic clarity to be expected from his celebrated Planetary Assault Systems alias. This EP pairs both an original mix and a spirited re-working by Josh Wink. Josh Wink's reworking of "Kat" pushes beat-driven sound to disciplined extremes, but not without clearly detectable traces of humor and playfulness. The original mix begins in a more subdued fashion, but it isn't lacking at all in concentrated energy. This mix relies on geometrical sound sequences that slowly approach from a distance before they completely overtake the listener.
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MOTE 046EP
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Leading off the proceedings on this first volume is the Ø [Phase] remix of "Dungeon" which takes the listener to a dark place of uncertainty and possible hidden dangers, but with more vigor and percussive intensity added to the mix. Ben Sims appears on the scene as well with a re-envisioning of "Gated". Retaining all the controlled chaos which made this track a classic, Sims adds more of his own fuel to the fire. "Dungeon" a 1997 original from P.A.S. which shows this unit transitioning into something more akin to the project's present-day approach.
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MOTE 041EP
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"The Eyes Themselves" features layers of crisp and captivating sound design, with irregular droplets of high-frequency sound that fall around the listener like glowing rain on the surface of a distant planet, while cymbal tracks fight to wrest the listener's attention away. On "Strange Attractor," a number of lightly accented, quickly decaying micro-sounds form more than the sum of their parts. "Arc" powers along with dirty, filtered phrases, a faintly menacing shaker sample, and the occasional impolite release of steam from the grating beneath your feet. With The Eyes Themselves, Luke Slater deftly moves from oneiric wonder to cold intensity.
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Mote Evolver kicks off 2014 with the Future Modular EP from Luke Slater's Planetary Assault Systems alias. Never a stranger to forward-thinking sound aesthetics, P.A.S. packs the EP with three tracks that spark with Futurism and energy. The title-track is powerful and playful with its groovy bass drum and acid infusing an ample dose of funky rhythmic variations. "Riot in Silo 12" slips into the darker side, keeping the hats just below the surface and layer by layer uncovering the electrifying suspense throughout the track. "Serc" pops open with the bursting energy of a kick drum then takes you to the uncharted realms of cold minimalism.
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MOTE 037EP
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2014 repress. Luke Slater's most well-known pseudonym Planetary Assault Systems is back in the fullest swing with No Exit, a standalone EP following his famed Deep Heat installment series. No Exit unmistakably bears all the hallmarks of Planetary Assault System, from mind-tripping and floor-stirring hypnotic energy to the theme of pushing the outer limits of unknown territories. It shows the most distinctive core DNA of Planetary Assault Systems and much like his seminal album The Messenger, it's a deadly unique, dazzling, and powerfully effective work that will stand the test of time.
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Planetary Assault Systems presents Deep Heet Volume 3, the third installment of one of Luke Slater's most seminal series on Mote-Evolver, carrying on in the spirit of intergalactic exploration. Inspired by the Mayan god of drums and the earth, "Voltan" is underpinned by primal desires. "Pygar's" futuristic sound palette is utterly hypnotic. Loops are layered insistently and a disorienting soundscape emerges. "Turn" is the stuff of industrial nightmares and "Flat Tire" is built on an angular bed of noise and interspersed with low, deep rumblings. On clear vinyl.
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This is the second remix package to reinterpret Planetary Assault System's seminal record Function 4. Originally released on the influential Peacefrog label in 2000, Luke Slater now hosts Function 4 on his Mote-Evolver imprint and invites three of the finest minds in electronic music to tease the original apart and reconfigure it anew: Lucy, Marcel Dettmann and Shifted. This EP contains industrial, broken-beat, dub and ambient elements; a multiplicity of ideas to move not just the body but also to provoke the mind.
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Luke Slater's Planetary Assault Systems follows the release of the album The Messenger (OSTGUT 020CD/010LP) with a 12" of remixes by Silent Servant and The Black Dog. L.A. producer John Mendez aka Silent Servant takes "Bell Blocker" and transforms it into a slow-burning, hypnotic ride. The original "Beauty In The Fear" is a tense mix of dark strings and jittering snares -- for the remix, The Black Dog combine their brooding melodics and dancefloor-oriented production skills to create something between plain scary and profoundly deep.
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2x12" version, featuring 9 out of 12 tracks from the CD. The Planetary Assault Systems project has been active for some 15 years now, channeling an exploratory theme into cutting-edge, non-conformist techno for the clubs but also for listening at home. His previous album for Ostgut Ton, Temporary Suspension (OSTGUT 009CD/004LP), re-instated that classic P.A.S sound and found the dexterous artist touring even more with this tougher, purist techno aesthetic. And yet again, Slater maintains his prolific output with the announcement of The Messenger. In his own words, it's a project that stays very true and honest to the Planetary Assault Systems goal: a journey of discovery, to create new sounds which are not otherwise present in club music at this time. There's a strong club element present here -- Slater play-tested all the tracks and employed a careful editing process to make sure they all fit the description. Highly playable works of club-intended sound art, early heavy moments like "Bell Blocker" or the playful "Wriss." The drum barrage of "Rip The Cut" speaks directly to the dancefloor, perhaps the most rhythmically-intense moment of the album, which is not to be put lightly as the rolling, filtering tones of "Cold Bolster" and "Black Tea" urge us further into perfectly frenetic moments.
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The Planetary Assault Systems project has been active for some 15 years now, channeling an exploratory theme into cutting-edge, non-conformist techno for the clubs but also for listening at home. His previous album for Ostgut Ton, Temporary Suspension (OSTGUT 009CD/004LP), re-instated that classic P.A.S sound and found the dexterous artist touring even more with this tougher, purist techno aesthetic. And yet again, Slater maintains his prolific output with the announcement of The Messenger. In his own words, it's a project that stays very true and honest to the Planetary Assault Systems goal: a journey of discovery, to create new sounds which are not otherwise present in club music at this time. From the album's beautiful introductory track "Railer (Further Exploration)," which floats through the bubbling ether before leading into the mysterious depths of "Beauty In The Fear," it is clear that Slater's role as sound explorer and adventurer has been dutifully fulfilled. With a sense of timing that can only be expected from such an experienced DJ and musician, we are led through a series of stand-out tracks, where no one feels less pure, yet each has their own voice. Indeed, there's a strong club element present here -- Slater play-tested all the tracks and employed a careful editing process to make sure they all fit the description. Highly playable works of club-intended sound art, early heavy moments like "Bell Blocker" or the playful "Wriss" give way to even more severe messages as "Kray Squid" pulses onto the radar with magnetic energy. The drum barrage of "Rip The Cut" speaks directly to the dancefloor, perhaps the most rhythmically-intense moment of the album, which is not to be put lightly as the rolling, filtering tones of "Cold Bolster" and "Black Tea" urge us further into perfectly frenetic moments.
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Ostgut Ton explore the outer limits with Planetary Assault Systems remixes by Al Tourettes & Appleblimand Deuce. Al Tourettes and Appleblim contort and re-form "X Speaks To X" into a devious, hot-footed celebration of dark and intense broken-beat electronics. Tight, tensile and direct, the pair intertwine thick synth patterns and shuddering, sub-sonic bass lines around the heavy, morphing groove. Deuce turn in a relentless yet smoothly-rounded version of "Hold It," which drones and phases to the point of hypnosis.
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2x12" version. Planetary Assault Systems is the legendary, harder-edged techno project from the UK's Luke Slater, and this is his first full-length effort after more than 7 years. Temporary Suspension is released as a continuous mix of 10 tracks on CD, as well as 6 single tracks on a double 12", and defies any current sound trends. However, Slater himself states that it's "time to bring the funk and intensity back in a new way. Time to open the sound again." In addition to funk and intensity, Slater manages to create an industrial strength and energy that has evolved over the years -- ranging from aggressive techno to very deep and melancholy pieces that still retain an alien feeling. The first track "Open Up" sets the pace for things to come, already: a driving groove and a thunderstorm of synths cutting through a confusing melody of chimes. Subsequently, the loud and fast "Whoodoo" dives deep into the primordial blend of techno, using an uncompromising, metallic percussion. "Om The Def" takes the foot off the gas pedal, marking one of the album's definite highlights by using an arrangement of bongos and a funky, distorted bass line oscillating between dense and airy aggregate states. "Hold It" is an unbelievably sexy Chicago house stomper reminiscent of a modern version of an Amando track. "Attack Of The Mutant Camels" fascinates with its noise and bleep fest, complete with a decelerated rhythm and a fierce bass line. On "Gateway To Minia" he loses the beat in favor of gloomy ambient synth chords culminating in a cacophony of noise. But the album does not end here, as he brings back the kick on "Sticker Men" one last time with the crowd firmly set in his sights. Luke Slater's sonic vision on Temporary Suspension as a rough and highly energetic sound hardly comes as a surprise, as he keeps testing and pushing his musical boundaries ever since releasing his first tracks in 1989. Planetary Assault Systems has always been Luke's pseudonym for hard and uncompromising techno, and almost all of his releases on Peacefrog have become classics of the genre. Luke has never been satisfied with exploring just one aspect of music, and is well-known for his eccentricity and rebelliousness, aspects that have held his audience captive in his extraterrestrial light-beam of past, present, and future. Heavy, grinding techno cuts that will most definitely rank as the best of 2009.
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OSTGUT 009CD
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Planetary Assault Systems is the legendary, harder-edged techno project from the UK's Luke Slater, and this is his first full-length effort after more than 7 years. Temporary Suspension is released as a continuous mix of 10 tracks on CD, as well as 6 single tracks on a double 12", and defies any current sound trends. However, Slater himself states that it's "time to bring the funk and intensity back in a new way. Time to open the sound again." In addition to funk and intensity, Slater manages to create an industrial strength and energy that has evolved over the years -- ranging from aggressive techno to very deep and melancholy pieces that still retain an alien feeling. The first track "Open Up" sets the pace for things to come, already: a driving groove and a thunderstorm of synths cutting through a confusing melody of chimes. Subsequently, the loud and fast "Whoodoo" dives deep into the primordial blend of techno, using an uncompromising, metallic percussion. "Om The Def" takes the foot off the gas pedal, marking one of the album's definite highlights by using an arrangement of bongos and a funky, distorted bass line oscillating between dense and airy aggregate states. "Hold It" is an unbelievably sexy Chicago house stomper reminiscent of a modern version of an Amando track. "Attack Of The Mutant Camels" fascinates with its noise and bleep fest, complete with a decelerated rhythm and a fierce bass line. On "Gateway To Minia" he loses the beat in favor of gloomy ambient synth chords culminating in a cacophony of noise. But the album does not end here, as he brings back the kick on "Sticker Men" one last time with the crowd firmly set in his sights. Luke Slater's sonic vision on Temporary Suspension as a rough and highly energetic sound hardly comes as a surprise, as he keeps testing and pushing his musical boundaries ever since releasing his first tracks in 1989. Planetary Assault Systems has always been Luke's pseudonym for hard and uncompromising techno, and almost all of his releases on Peacefrog have become classics of the genre. Luke has never been satisfied with exploring just one aspect of music, and is well-known for his eccentricity and rebelliousness, aspects that have held his audience captive in his extraterrestrial light-beam of past, present, and future. Heavy, grinding techno cuts that will most definitely rank as the best of 2009.
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OSTGUT 024EP
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Be it Detroit techno, obscure electronica, ambient, or conceptual electro, Luke Slater has definitely left his stamp on the last two decades as a DJ and a producer. This time, he returns under his legendary techno pseudonym Planetary Assault Systems with the Temporary Suspension EP, a taster of his eponymously-titled album on Ostgut Ton. With this two-tracker, he shows how techno with a healthy dose of toughness should be done, and both tracks are uncompromising DJ tools for the peak-time.
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"Archives Two is the fifth Planetary Assault Systems album for Peacefrog, and follows in the footsteps of Archives One, by bringing you more of those classic Luke Slater rarities under his popular & clubby Planetary Assault System guise The early Planetary 12"s contained on this new double pack & CD have been unavailable for a few years & have hence been changing hands on Ebay for mucho dollar. This is also the first time many of these tracks have appeared on CD. So, if you're unaware of the Planetary style of funked up minimal house & techno grooves or just missed them first time round, then this is a must introduction to one of the UK's most respected & pioneering techno outfits."
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