MARS89 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Having built his reputation via a trio of must-check EPs on Bokeh Versions, Mars89 transfers to Alex Hall's "mutant electronics" imprint Natural Sciences. The producer is a neat fit on the imprint, with "2020" containing a quartet of creepy, hard-wired, industrial-tinged cuts that seem eerily fitting for these troubled times. He begins with the bone-rattling beats, machine-gun percussion hits, ricocheting metallic clonks and gut-punching bass of "GoodThing", before successfully fusing mutilated industrial sounds and paranoid rhythms on "JoyCamp". Over on side B, "DayOrder" is a strangely swung slab of mind-altering electronica that defies easy description, while "MiniLuv" is a thumping stomp through lo-fi techno territory in the company of a steroid-fired monster.

Review: If dystopian, otherworldly ambient music inspired by "A Clockwork Orange" is your thing, we'd heartily recommend checking out this expansive EP from sometimes Bokeh Versions artist Mars89, a producer better known for laying down weighty slabs of hybrid bass music. The A-side boasts three fresh slabs of end-of-days electronica: the creeping intensity and blackened debris of "Horrorshow" - all doom-laden modular pulses and horror movie synth motifs - the delay-laden drums and noise style screeching guitars of "Ultraviolence" and the sparse, post-dubstep moodiness of "Strack". Over on side B, Thom Yorke delivers a deliciously ghostly ambient take on "Horrorshow", before Zomby re-imagines "Strack" as an extra-percussive, off-kilter techno roller and Low Jack re-casts the same track as a fuzzy, red-lined fusion of heavy analogue bass, skittish snare rolls and bustling, hard-to-pigeonhole beats.

Review: Next up on Bristol's Bokeh Versions is Japan's Mars89 with his second release. He's a crucial member of the Tokyo's Chopstick Killahz: a self-described 'post tribal DJ unit' lurking on the fringes of the city's grime scene, in addition to being a Noods Radio resident. He presents some more of his contorted UK bass and gqom derivatives from the far east on the End Of The Death EP. Influences of Jersey club, dancehall and grime are evident throughout, from the reverberated rapid-fire toms of "Run To Mall" or the industrial edged beats of "Random Coherence" or "Throbbing Pain" to even more desolate soundscapes as heard on the chilling "Visitor From The Ocean".