Reality Broadcast Off - James Ruskin (Blueprint)

Title: Reality Broadcast Off

Artist: James Ruskin

Label: Blueprint

Cat Number: BP054

Genre: Techno

1: Reality Broadcast Off

2: We Are Everywhere

3: Disaffection

The title track and, unsurprisingly given its name ‘We Are Everywhere’ are object lessons in insect menace. There are many ways to “do techno”, some of which can alienate those who are devoted to the others. I do like the stalking method though, as exemplified on the title track, and the chaotic invertebrate overload of the second: it’s the plague of locusts updated for the twenty first century. ‘Disaffection’ is all funky, squelchy percussion and bass intertwined. Layered loops of fury everywhere here. Which is nice.