Perc Trax –
Slowly Exploding (Perc Trax)
LP/CD/DL
10 November
2014
Label of
techno revolutionary release an anti-retrospective.
No one can
say that Perc Trax isn’t original. The
label of Ali Wells (aka Perc) celebrates ten years in existence by not
releasing a best of the label, but by releasing brand new tracks by its
artists. Back in the day when albums
like Pay It All Back (On-U Sound) and The Some Bizarre album paved the way for
upcoming artists, labels brought together compilations of their releases. Now, Perc Trax turn that on its head with a
preview of what is yet to come.
The music of
the label isn’t anything to relax to. Its
constant pounding beats and bass will have you more pumped up than Lance
Armstrong’s tyres and would suggest won’t allow you sleep for some time
afterwards.
Opening with
Drvg Cvltvre (I Don’t Want To Die) In James Franco’s House the pace and mood is
set as the volume is unavoidably turned to the max and the percussion starts
pumping in your head, throat and arteries.
It’s not for the faint-hearted and something you won’t be witnessing on
prime time Saturday night TV.
Happa’s To
Die Hating Them sounds like the bastard son of The Prodigy (Phat Planet) and
The Chemical Brothers (Let Forever Be) and is fantastic for it. Some would
argue that it’s just noise, and some are entitled to their own point of view,
but what a noise. With Acid House for
the 21 Century Gove by Sawf throbs and pulsates and messes with your head until
it cannot be messed with anymore.
Perc Trax
and its artists have taken techno dance and fused it with the very best moments
of Industrial rock and pop to create a sound that is purely their own. It maybe wouldn’t have been possible without
the likes of Einsturzende Neubauten to influence them (Perc remixed Kollaps and
Stahldubversions last year), but the vision of the label is unparalleled.
Repetitive
and obsessive, The New Normal by Martyn Hare is turbulent and chaotic as it thrashes
its way through five and a half glories minutes challenging anyone not to be
moved in any way as the intensity spirals upwards and borders uncontrollable
proportions.
With further
contributions from Perc in the form of the incredibly muffled and fuzzed-out
Volley showing him at his experimental best, and a remix of Dread Network by
Clouds where the thundering barrage of percussion and effects become quite
outstanding, there can be no doubt that he is a true one-off.
As the album
closes with Kareem and their spacious industrio overture Just When You Thought
It Was Over, you really wish that it wasn’t.
An intriguing and unrepeatable template has been cast, get writing your
Xmas list and make sure this is on it.
9/10
Links
Perc Trax
Perc info
Perc on Twitter
9/10
Links
Perc Trax
Perc info
Perc on Twitter
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