Endlec – TAR036

Thessaloniki producer Endlec sharpens his industrial techno edge on 'Tar 36', a four-track, three-loop barrage for Rotterdam's Tar Hallow. Known for hammering, distortion-streaked workouts on labels like Mord and Concrete Records, here he threads a sense of claustrophobic tension through every offbeat and metallic scrape, where kick drum merges with bass-notched crud texture to produce less a genre-requisite sum of parts, and more an impact zone shock-absorbers primed for the most nightmarish future scenarios possible. The locked grooves heard all work as hard-valving pressure tools for DJs; 'Program Shift' especially, its leaping pad variation providing the illusion of more progressiveness than there is in the track.