Smooth, yet seedy, meets raw and uncouth across a toxic landscape of green vinyl.
Solar One are adding to The Crystal Issue Cycle series with another visit to the UK. Rather than following Mantra’s hardy Many Worlds EP, fellow Bunker veteran Perseus Traxx (aka Nigel Rogers) is a catalog forerunner; Mantra being the third release and Rogers being the second. Confused? Don’t worry, it’s only release number semantics. Anyway. The York Housemaster has been clocking up a dizzying number of releases on a myriad of labels whilst building a reputation as a young exciting name of dance floor electronics.
The single sided 12” opens with “Fresh Start.” A broody piece of twisted House is unfurled. Perseus Traxx’s trademark edge has been sheathed for this piece. Instead the product is a low bubbling piece of reptilian electronics. Vocals and bass blend, with 303 fingers scraping, a sinister track that blurs genre lines. “Circuit Control” sees Perseus Traxx on more familiar ground. An oil slick of Acid leeches out of speakers, toms and claps piercing through the translucent machine grease. Nasty mutant Chicago from start to finish.
Circuit Control has bolstered Solar One’s burgeoning House sublabel with these two pieces of gritty electronics. Each track is from a different side of the city, but both hail from the same squalor. Smooth, yet seedy, meets raw and uncouth across a toxic landscape of green vinyl.
Circuit Control is available on Solar One.
