- Fanon Flowers grew up halfway between Chicago and Detroit, and it's had the expected effect on his music, although what I've heard has tended to lean more towards the east. This, and 15 years of experience, result in Maschinenhaus being a confident collection of rolling tech; lessons in drive from the '90s with a futuristic, heads-down texture for the '10s.
Part 2 of the eponymous track has the most edge. After kicking the door in with rock-solid swing and pulsating swipes of industrial doom, ultra-swung hats swagger piercingly in. It all bounces around in a coal-black, Berghain-friendly miasma of echo, delay and white noise. Part 1 is the straighter version, exchanging charging whiplash for metronomic precision, while "Up" takes headfuck techno down a wormhole. It could lazily be described as a throwback, what with its dizzying Millsian line and 909 drums. The difference is that it doesn't try to be old or new or anything at all. It just is.
Tracklist A Up
B1 Maschinenhaus Pt1
B2 Maschinenhaus Pt2