Hand Over Control - Dustin Zahn (Blueprint)

 

Title: Hand Over Control

Artist: Dustin Zahn

Label: Blueprint

Cat Number: BP061

Genre: Techno

A1: Hand Over Control

A2: Rising Tides

B1: Studio 5/4

B2: Wet Hot Heat

With ‘Hand Over Control’, Dustin Zahn has kept up Blueprint’s high standards without breaking any new ground. This is notoriously hard to do in techno, but while there is a feeling that everything that can be done has been, it is still possible to take the dancer and listener to machine funk nirvana. Zahn’s maxim of “I like it dark enough for the boys, but groovy enough for the girls” is well adhered to on this package, which is four tracks of loop-driven techno; two of which (‘Hand Over Control’ and ‘Studio 5/4’) are wonderfully dense, linear tension builders. ‘Rising Tides’ is there or thereabouts, but slightly less damaging on the Richter Scale, and ‘Wet Hot Heat’ a Miillesque journey into the heart of barrel organ on crack with added bounce.