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Casual Treatment – Tar 27
TH Tar Hallow / TAR027A1: It Warms My Heart
A2: Floating (Locked)
A3: What Will Last Forever
B1: Eternity Is Long, Prepare For It (Locked)
B2: Back In The Tunnel
B3: Not The One You Thought (Locked)
B4: Remember Me
Topping up the Rotterdam techno label TH Tar Hallow comes Casual Treatment (Melvyn Ortega), a newcomer to the imprint based in Berlin. Essentially a mini-album, this 27th addition to TH Tar's Hallowed annals makes clever use of sentimental track titling with ultra-mechanical, nigh unfeeling sequencing and sound design, to rather ironic effect. For example, 'It Warms My Heart' opens with a totally frozen-over aortic groove, while the closer 'Remember Me' transmits equally cold sounds to distant polar receiver-markers. In all seriousness, though, this is a great release, one which opens up properly in the latter half.