First Phase - Truncate (Truncate)

 

Title: First Phase 

Artist: Truncate

Label: Truncate

Cat Number: TRUNCATE22

Genre: Techno

1: First Phase (Planetary Assault Systems Remix)

2: First Phase (Original Mix)

3: First Phase (PAS Jam 1)

4: First Phase (PAS Jam 2)

5: The Eve (James Ruskin Remix)

6: The Eve (Original Mix)

Massive remix package in which Luke Slater largely holds sway: his  Planetary Assault Systems Remix of ‘First Phase’ is an intricately layered piece of classic big room techno with the wind beneath its wings. It’s one of those tracks with energy to burn, going through the gears like Lewis Hamilton. Both of the PAS Jams are more minimalist affairs, and played end to end could be (are) the same track. James Ruskin’s remix of ‘The Eve’ is an urgent, hepped up be bop on crack take which rises and falls in intensity and whose crisp edges are just that little bit more emphasised than those of the original which, along with that of the title track, is pretty wonderful. Definitely worth shelling out the shekels as much for Truncate’s versions as anything else on this machine funk conflagration.