Thursday, June 01, 2006

New Audion material!

Following on from the absolutely barnstorming Audion releases and a killer Fabric mix, Spectral have announced the next move by Matthew Dear's nasty alter-ego. For those that don't know, Matthew Dear has been dropping crisp minimal techno with a killer left-field edge and cold-as-Dracula's-coffin vocals on Spectral Sound for a good few years now (check the 'Leave Luck To Heaven' LP for proof). Then out of the blue at the end of 2004 the first Audion EP 'Kisses' dropped, ditching the concentrated click'n'shuffle of the Matthew Dear work and focusing instead on having the most crushing tweaked-out synths imaginable, and making everyone think about shagging to the music they were hearing. Since then we've had 'The Pong' and 'Just Fucking' 12"s and the LP 'Suckfish', which have maintained the high standard on production and sex-obsessed rhythms, and now it seems the sexual tension will reach fever pitch with a split EP between Audion and Ellen Allien. 'Just a Man/Woman' drops on July 25. Expect a gushing review very shortly after this :)

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