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Following their smash album ‘PL’, and a scorching live show filmed for Movement Detroit widely cited as a lockdown highlight, Paranoid London return with a new EP, aptly titled ‘Annihilate The World & Start All Over’.

With their trademark acid lines conspicuously absent, this marks an unintentional but fruitful swerve of direction, on which the duo explain in typical no-nonsense fashion, “the 303 broke during lockdown, so we got on and did a record without it.”

A series of moods across four standout tracks range from Liaisons Dangereuses-inspired white noise percussion, to banging sine wave techno, euphoric festival destroyers and deep, warped k-hole vocal house.

PREMIERE: Paranoid London - Annihilate The World & Start All Over

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Transport (Carl Craig Remix - DJ Deep & Roman Poncet Rework)

Skudge - Melodrama (Zola's Slope Refix)

Efdemin - Night Train ( Vid Remix )

Katsumoto (outro)

Written late and left deliberately open, this track sits somewhere between a jam and a draft. Have a boogie, you deserve it x 

Phase One

'One' is the debut album of Ben Klock. 

Stylistically, Klock draws on plentiful resources. There's the dirty techno in 'Grip', the sexy intermittent 'Check Your Pulse', alongside ambient like tracks like 'Init One' and 'Init Two', as well as the dubstep inspired 'Goldrush'. And then there are the outstanding cuts 'Goodly Sin' and 'Ok' featuring Elif Biçer's vocals. In comparison to her records with Prosumer & Murat Tepeli, here her voice has been reduced to the bare essentials.

With its rugged bassline and crafty claps 'Ok' is even reminiscent of a contemporary version of Nicolette's early work with Shut Up And Dance, but first and foremost it expands the Berghain sound to include a notion of pop.

'One' displays a depth and maturity of sound rarely found in this compactness. In all its stylistic variety, this album oozes with Klock's traditional understanding of techno. The special sound at Berghain, the low bass, the hiss and the rumble, the economically used melodic fragments and the eerie atmospheres are present at any moment of this recording. The album creates a sealed off space reflecting Berghain as an actual place. Ben Klock defines techno as visonary music knowing about its past, yet appearing completely up to date without ever coming close to Detroit and minimal clichés.

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‘Paul’s Horizon’ – @Ryan-Elliott’s first EP in six years – falls musically between Berlin and Detroit, between house and techno and between hypnotic repetition and unpredictability, revealing a subtle ear for groove and composition.

It’s the DJ’s perspective that has informed the Berghain / Panorama Bar resident's own analogue productions, with ‘Paul’s Horizon’ turning its focus toward deep and slick percussion. This is apparent from the get-go, with the title track’s triangle/clap interplay, funky 5-6 kicks per bar, and bleary-eyed atmosphere. From there “Martinsville Morning” slows down into an understated sunrise groover, led by bassline, strings and pads. EP closer “Grafton Road” turns up the pace again with gasps for hats, aggressive punctuating snares, and a modulating synth bubbling-up throughout.

Ben Klock | In A While

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