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The product of an intercontinental friendship and a shared love of unorthodox club music, Tehran’s Taboo Collective present a 4-track collaborative exploration of broken-beat techno from label boss gestaltwandler and prolific Australia-based producer Hedchef.

Releasing work from an artist outside of Iran is a first for Taboo - the collective play a crucial role in the Tehran underground both in releasing forward-thinking club music and organising joyous community-driven parties which remain, as the name suggests, ‘Taboo’ in day-to-day Iranian life.

Rhythmic patterns jerk and shift over sinister atmospheres and chest-rattling bass throughout ‘How The Tides Shift’. Hedchef’s cinematic and brooding opener ‘Seventeen Petty Afflictions’ builds tension over the course of six and a half minutes before gestaltwandler raises the tempo for snarling dancefloor obliterator ‘Certainty’.

Onto the remixes, where gestaltwandlers’s ‘Over-the-Counter’ mix of ‘SPA’ cranks up the suspense to anxiety-inducing levels as a soaring, acidic synth cuts through the fog. To finish off the release, Hedchef’s ‘Entrenched Scepticism’ mix of ‘Certainty’ harks back to his UK roots with dubstep-tinged halftime beat structures and persistent Reese bass chunk.

Released on June 27, ‘How the Tides Shift’ is an essential pack of envelope-pushing club tools for the next generation.

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