Mike Parker - Modulation Cave

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  • Hypnotic is an overused adjective in techno, generally deployed as a description of any track that just rolls on endlessly without riffs. And while that's a fair assessment of Mike Parker's debut for the recently minted Shipwrec offshoot Deep Sound Channel, it underplays just how mesmerising his music is. Between the first and final bars of both tracks very little changes: a lightening and lengthening of the subs, tweaks to the hi-hat flange, a nudge of the filter on the cycling riffs. But because there are no landmarks, nothing to tell you where you are in a phrase, you quickly become lost. It's like being dropped into the middle of a maze. DJ tools live and die on the strength of their production chops, and Parker's got them in spades. The A-side, especially, for all its paucity of hooks, is littered with microscopic details—fizzing distortion, near-inaudible bells, ghost notes behind the bass—that only add to the sense of disorientation by making you question whether you've actually heard them at all. The B-side is more straightforward, although the way the echo trails from the main riff is equally brain scrambling. This is techno built for strobes and smoke and very late nights.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Modulation Cave 1 B1 Modulation Cave 2
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