Delta Funktionen caused ripples of excitement in the techno underground with his Setup One: Decorum release a few months back, and here we see the Dutch producer return with his second Setup 12", entitled Fusion. It's tough, raw and unrelenting - everything you'd expect from Niels Luinenburg. "Devolution" kicks things off with some robust, industrial-strength bass, sounding similar to Karl O'Connor's "Haiku" track on Sandwell District a couple of years back under the Kalon pseudonym. "Evoltuion" maintains a more linear progression, a thumping, granite hard kick drum underscoring gurgling mechanics and tense snares interspersed by robotic bleeps. B Side opener "Theatre" offers plenty of thrills, with beatless interludes building swathes of tension before returning into a rock solid banging throb, while "Conflict Data" rounds off the 12" with an intergalactic exploration of machine funk, taking its cue from Jeff Mills' Something In The Sky series and bathing it in a shuffling sunrise groove.

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