PINCH 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Tectonic bossman Pinch on Berceuse Heroique? Now this is a match made in boundary-breaking heaven. Not even the lead track "Border Control" can keep things confined as we're hurled into a swampy, heady, paranoid and relentless stampede which is just as much techno as it is 140. "Fortune Tellers" brings us back down to even woozier 125 as layers of off-kilter percussion scuffle up and down the mix in a blurry, sense-deceiving way before "Loose Cables" turns us inside out with its tripletty off-beat, subaquatic pressure. A one of a kind artist on a one of a kind label; there are no borders here.

Review: Having spent much of the last few years working with one of his idols, On U-Sound legend Adrian Sherwood, Rob 'Pinch' Ellis returns with a first solo single since January 2016. "Water Bomb" is a suitably bombastic affair, with Ellis creating a heavyweight rhythm out of manipulated recordings of running and splashing water. This is then combined with a typically heavy, thrusting bassline to create an intoxicating, futurist dubstep roller. Flip for "Cold New Worlds", where the tall Bristolian offers an altogether icier voyage into Autechre-influenced post-dubstep pastures. While suitably heavy and club-ready, it's also rather poignant.

Review: First heard on his excellent B2B mix CD with Mumdance, Tectonic boss Pinch does the right thing and brings "The Obsession" to the 12" format, replete with Shed remix. A killer combination of 808 drums and muffled grime stabs, "The Obsession" is a nice taster for anyone who is yet to hear Pinch B2B Mumdance, straddling the crawl space between techno, dubstep and UK club hybrids with a confidence one associates with the Bristol mainstay. The aforementioned remix from Shed goes deep on a vocal staccato tip, throwing throws sounds of the original into a sonic field that grumbles and pops like slowly flowing molten lava. Essential.

Review: Tectonic bossman Pinch has whittled his forward-thinking stick to a point so hard it could poke the eye out of an unaware London pedestrian all the way from Bristol base. "Down" is a perfect example of how ahead of the game Pinch is and is plucked from his forthcoming genre smelting mix CD of the year contender with Mumdance. It's a lesson in sludgy, early-Warp style techno that's droning and paranoid, twisting his immersive signature into an entirely new context. Flip for "Search Party", a groove that shuffles and shakes on a fractious broken beat while an array of well-tamed wobbles twist and tease each other. Long may Pinch keep whittling...

Review: Tectonic's double-A Team come correct! Frequent collaborators Logos, Mumdance, and Pinch come together for a killer white label 12" on the latter's Tectonic label, who incidentally are fairly ruling it in 2015!! Leading the way is a VIP rendition of Pinch and Mumdance's 2014 call to arms "Turbo Mitzi", renamed here quite appropriately as "Double Barrelled Mitzi" as it kicks like a load of buckshot to the chest. Complementing that is Pinch's long sought after VIP mix of the Mumdance and Logos game-changer "Legion". One of those no-questions-asked, purchase is necessary kind of 12"s.