VISITOR Vinyl & CDs

Review: As well as serving up a mighty fine new 2 x 12" on Radio Slave's Rekid this summer, UK techno titan Mark Broom has also assumed his Visitor alias (along with Dave Hill) for this remastered reissue of their Basement Life EP on D1 Recordings out of Ireland. 'Model Two' opens up with a deeper than usual sound that is peppered with nice heady melodic phrase and smeared chords and on the flip 'The Last Time' cuts loose on a broken beat with crispy hits and lunching bass that draws you in time and time again.

Review: Visitor is a great name for an anonymous artist, evoking thoughts of a spectral presence looming over us, attempting to flog us with its immaterial USB stick of self-made bangers from beyond the grave. Jokes aside, the producer makes a crackingly eerie statement on 'Confidential III', which matches said ghostly vibe for a new contribution to the longstanding London label Art Of Dark. Grumbly electric-guitar emulations and maddening UFO arps are among this artist's arsenal of cool ideas to lay down to an electro seleccy. Of course, it wouldn't be a proper Visitation without a dash of exclusivism; there's no digitals for this one, so you better catch sight of this apparition before its frightful veneer effervesces out of sight.