Finally some of that dirty UK techno is hitting the misty shores of Cerberus! Only this ain’t London, this be New York, so strap on your heavy boots and get ready to lay some rusty pipe. Best Available Technology use sides A and B to create a captivating contrast that pits more experimental electronic sounds (A) against crowd-pleasing 4/4 bliss (B). If you’ve been reading Cerbs for any amount of time at all you know which side of the fence we’re going to fall on, but both serve a worthy purpose. Bangers & Ash covers a lot of ground for a 45 RPM 12-inch (which, incidentally, weighs a metric ton), particularly amid the gruesome sound-blurs of “Venom, Pheromone, and Phosphorus” and “Vulgar Geometry,” when I can’t help but bring up the synth blurs of Metasplice once again and marvel at how few acts cut to the core of techno quite like B.A.T. Hopefully this is just a tiny finger-dab taste of a dealer’s ransom to come.
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