Family Of Waves - Crushed Soul (Dark Entries)

 

Title: Family Of Waves

Artist: Crushed Soul

Label: Dark Entries

Cat Number: DE-276

Genre: Techno Innit

 

1: Gravitational Field

2: Scaler Property

3: Family Of Waves

4: Diffusion Of Heat

 

Crushed Soul, aka Steffi, really comes correct with this release. It’s dark, brooding, industrial and, drawing much of its power from EBM fuelled dance floors of a few decades back, it’s a great journey into the days of future past, as well as being well ahead of today’s curve. I hope that sounds as ambiguous as it was meant to. Above all it’s proper techno. All of the tunee track,s are killers and, with the exception of the title track, employ a bollock trembling kick to guide them along a lateral line of lunacy. ‘Scaler Property’ puts me in mind of classic Suburban Knight, ‘Gravitational Field’ is similar, but denser and more humid. ‘Diffusion Of Heat’ has some lovely little licks in it that remind me of the Tom Tom Club, while ‘Family Of Waves’ is a dark, claustrophobic, tribal percolator. Not a note is wasted on this fine four tracker which is class from start to finish.