Lisbon pals Photonz and Shcuro are two of the city's most active DJs and music makers, sharing a penchant for a moody yet electrifying brand of dance sonics. They've created Shermanworx together in the studio, recording machines live using an ethos of improvisation while relying on their fine-tuned dancefloor intuition. The Sherman Filterbank was the go-to piece of equipment, appearing in every track and eventually naming the EP.

Tribal techno swirls menacingly backed by dark melodies in the opening track, a hypnotic yet vivid peak-time belter that could go on and on.
A synth so textured you can almost touch it is the centrepiece of Sherman2, another driving club beast complete with modulated arpeggios and industrial-tinged percussions.

The record comes to close with a dreamier exercise in Sherman3: a dubby electro beat conducts melodic mutant synth lines and pads to achieve a slow-burning, expansive euphoria.

Photonz & Shcuro - Sherman3

Photonz & Shcuro - Sherman2

Photonz & Shcuro - Sherman1

“Rage Therapy” is the name of a laboratory research on the wretched
conditions of dancing humans conducted with a self developed computer
program by two infamous Techno veterans and executed on shocking
analogue and digital hardware.
“No Holding Back” for Future Déjà Vu is their second explosive vinyl release.
On side A, “Zoloft” and “Deconstruction” are real sharp relentless
techno bangers with an industrial aftertaste and a troubling
exploitation of synthetic drums and distortion.
The B-side opens up with the furious arpeggios and the frantic crispy
percussions of “Detuned Reality” and continues with the dissociated
chords of “Fight or Flight” coupled with a demolisher kick drum,
alienated echoes and  feedbacks and caustic 303 leaks.
A killer dance floor release with a cutting edge sound and a
composition style at the boundaries of human doubts.

B2. Rage Therapy - Fight or Flight

B1. Rage Therapy - Detuned Reality

A2. Rage Therapy - Destruction

A1. Rage Therapy - Zoloft

“The future is there…looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become” William Gibson 

Future Déjà Vu is a Berlin based techno label. Behind such paradoxical definition of time lies an elementary objective: the promotion of a functional sound, able to be immediately usable on a techno-floor. The immediacy of the sound becomes in turn paradox itself and its planes turns into power.

Future Déjà Vu

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