Red Shift EP

Red Shift EP

Speedy J [Electric Deluxe]

24 October, 2008 | 7.24AM

• Written by: Lee Smith
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: electric deluxe, speedy j

It’s been two years since the last dancefloor release from Dutch techno don Speedy J, but this awesome double-header of claustrophobic techno has been well worth the wait.

Released on his own new label, Electric Deluxe, the EP is the first in a series of productions utilizing ‘parts’ from Speedy J’s ‘Kreate’ sound library.

The title track is based around an endlessly tunneling, low-pitched kick drum, with menacing clangs and compressed metallic shards ricocheting across a leaden pulse.

Less noisy than much of J’s output over the last decade, it’s nonetheless a stark, dark ride into the abyss, in a similar vein to Mika Vainio’s work as Ø and Consumed-era Plastikman.

‘Bootes’ is murkier still, layering a distant, barely-there drum thud amidst haunting industrial rattles and alien insect chatter.

Occupying the murky limbo between grey-scale electronics and bleak ultra-minimalism, it’s a startling return to the fray from a true techno master.

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