At the age of 14, _asstnt found in music a way to tell stories. In Madrid, his hometown, he discovered Techno and embodied this musical genre to turn it into his own language. With his particular style, he bursts onto the scene again with this EP called "Love War". Love and war, two antonyms that end up merging through a mixture of romantic and melancholic sounds, along with the dirty roars characteristic of hardtechno. This trip through good lovin’, a journey between heaven and hell, features the version of his admired partner, SlugoS, who adds the finishing touch on this four-track EP.

‘Love War’ delves into the origins of the artist and dares to mix flamenco rhythms with acid. The zapateado and the cajón, two of the most characteristic sounds of Spanish folklore, are presented in the song accompanied by an hypnotic vocal that is soaked in techno 303. The journey continues with ‘Catwoman Spotlight’, which crosses a rainy and gray city with a seductive female voice as a guide. A sharp, and metallic snare takes over to give way to a warlike melancholy that takes us to heaven and gets broken by a stimulating and unsympathetic electric guitar.

The end of the celestial opens the gates of hell for us with ‘Track For The Apocalypse’. The frenetic start is on a hard beat, a beastly crunch that progressively introduces us into the apocalyptic atmosphere with aggressive percussion. The atmosphere develops with a paralyzing break in which we can hear the passage of the riders threatening with the arrival of the end. The Berlin-based artist from Madrid, SlugoS, does a reading of the song at a 4/4 rhythm while offering a respite to the bass drum that maintains the crunch of _asstnt injecting his hard and raw style into the track.

A2. _asstnt - Catwoman Spotlight

A1. _asstnt -  Love War

_asstnt - Unexpected Deal

_asstnt - Black Kite

_asstnt - Shooters

_asstnt - Steppenwolf

_asstnt - LSD Rush

_asstnt - Vortex

B1. Coalescence

A2. The Hill of the Hanged

B2. Dirty Mistress

A1. Back From The Morgue

‘Heartless’ begins proceedings with intense, piercing modulations, industrial kicks and robust sonics in this haunting opening cut before ‘Teenage Romance’ offers up entrancing leads underneath blistering soundscapes and acid-soaked, rave inspired synth flutters. On the flip, shrieking oscillations, industrial atmospheres, frightening samples and soul-stirring moods take the focus in ‘Smells Like Darkroom’ whilst Broken Ties’ rounds things off with a 90s trance feel featuring psychedelic, revolving bass notes and fast paced grooves that continue to pulsate throughout the effervescent finisher.

B1. _asstnt - Smells Like Darkroom

Roll Dann has already impressed with outings on Modularz, Soma and Pole Group. It is the direct nature of his floor facing techno that appeals, and it comes infused with the inspirations he has picked up from a stint living in Berlin, as well as with the legacy of his teenage love of hardtechno-schranz. 

The start of Roll Dann & _asstnt’s Opera 2000 marks a shift Roll Dann’s creative direction where he focuses on an aggressive yet beautifully emotive style which is displayed wonderfully in his first solo release on the imprint entitled ‘Oppression Dance’

Opera 2000

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