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Review: Some 15 years have now passed since Solar One Music founder Robert Witschakowski debuted The Exaltics alias, and in that time the project has delivered some genuinely brilliant and far-sighted electro and techno. This compilation of highlights, which mines a variety of albums and EPs released between 2009 and 2019 (including some previously digital-only and long out of print material), is therefore well overdue. Highlights are naturally plentiful, with our picks of an extremely strong bunch including the acid-fired, mind-mangling peak-time aggression of 'Second Phases', the heavyweight star-fall intensity of 'Irresistible', the Drexcyian rush of 'Skyway Chase' and the near D&B-tempo, new wave influenced retro-futurism of 'Nothing's Too Late'.

Review: The Exaltics is always a dab hand at crafting cinematic sci-fi scenes out of his dystopian electro, but even he took it to another level with Das Heise Experiment. Conceived in 2013 as a soundtrack to a graphic novel, it was the perfect outlet for Robert Witschakowski's music beyond the function of a club 12". The atmospheres and moods he elicits from the Exaltics sound bank are brilliantly rendered across the whole release, which gets the ten year treatment on this reissue with striking, all-new full colour artwork which brings the visuals to life alongside the music like never before.