- Barney Khan is another of those British 20-somethings who's pulling techno's fabric away at the seams. Wrath is the third installment for his own Bis Bald Records, and once again features the sort of considered, compelling approach to design and sound that should make anyone with leftfield tendencies sit up and take note. A product of the teeming Manchester scene who now lives in Berlin, Khan emboldens both tracks with the spirit of those worlds, and the results are like a long-lost cousin of Hessle Audio.
"Dawn" resembles that slow clickety-clackety climb of a roller coaster, complete with an anxious inhalation before we plunge into the rattling, percussive black hole. There's drum & bass riffs here, and enough thundering kicks and confusion to make your head spin. It's a cluttered killer, designed to disrupt as much as fill a dance floor. "Wrath" is a whole lot calmer. Khan deploys another lethal wind-up mechanism, but the climax this time is a friendly 4/4 chug, cut up with crystal chords and bandaged back together with heavy pads.
Tracklist01. Wrath
02. Dawn