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Fixing glassy chimes to stern bassdrum with "Back In," and banking noxious drones over the pneumatic mechanisms of "When Mine," Dual Action rolls off-the-bone with the Pan Sonic-like "Kill the Ignition," and mows back to the 'floor with the thrumming, diesel-fuelled momentum of "Inroads," leaving the throttling distortion of "Easy Way to Get What You Want" for those who can't get enough. Like most everything on Bed of Nails, these tracks function as warehouse tools while edging toward a more layered and destroyed vision of techno. Highly recommended for followers of Preserved Instincts, Powell, Vatican Shadow, or Prostitutes.
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It's been a busy couple of years for the producer behind the Shifted project. On top of an extremely well-received album for the Mote Evolver label, the producer has edged further out into the fringes of electronic music under a number of aliases, taking in noise/ambient variants as Covered In Sand, as well as more distorted, technofied productions under the Alexander Lewis moniker, a sound described by the Blackest Ever Black label as "S-M techno." His new album as Shifted, Under a Single Banner, finds the producer converging these strands into a lucid re-imagining of techno, starting off from the toughened, purist templates honed down by the likes of Sandwell District and Marcel Dettmann, and stretching out into more textured, sometimes noisy, often introverted and melancholy signatures. It's a perfect fit for Bed Of Nails, a label that's given a platform for the more direct dancefloor mutations of Dominick Fernow's own productions as Vatican Shadow, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, and Christian Cosmos, as well as familiar Hospital Productions affiliates such as Kris Lapke under the Bronze Age guise. There's a rich and earthy warmth to Under a Single Banner that's perhaps at odds with the puerile fixation on all things noisy at the fringes of techno these days, but for the most part, the tension and momentum keeps the album definitively aimed at the floor without ever resting on its laurels. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy.
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Dominick "Vatican Shadow" Fernow presents veiled techno producer Violet Poison on his Bed Of Nails imprint with the spectral industrial gloom of Awakening Messiah. To date Violet Poison is best known as the mysterious accomplice of Shaped Noise in their Violetshaped alias -- but here he strikes solo, transmitting four cuts of steely, night-stalking cyberpunk driven by sputtering techno engines through intensely bleak synth interzones. Like Black Rain or Vatican Shadow, it's a chilling exercise in transposing techno from pure dancefloor functionality into the nether realms of sonic fiction.
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In parallel to his Vatican Shadow project, Christian Cosmos has emerged as one of Dominick Fernow's most compelling monikers. The third transmission from his Bed of Nails imprint yields four intensely gloomy stations in this mode, revolving around a cryptic, as-yet-unresolved agenda borrowing from industrial techno, petrifying synth soundtrack elements and meditative noise clangor with a rudimentary but deeply affective Gnosticism.
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Dominik Fernow's Bed Of Nails venture welcomes his longtime co-conspirator Kris Lapke with three tracks of haunting gothic techno produced as Bronze Age. As Bronze Age, he's conceived a murky reflection of Vatican Shadow's recent exploits -- albeit lashed with a bruxist brand of Midwestern techno and Teutonic trance arrangements -- best heard on the razing techno weapon "Surviving Cultural Impedance" or the marching epic "Modal Ingenuity." "Coupling Symbols" is a majestic, militant techno sensation redolent of classic Marc Arcardipane productions and blessed with a rare, positively dystopian atmosphere.
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