Bintus washes up on Acid Shores

The Power Vacuum wayfarer will crash his raft into Shipwrec in Feburary.

Up until very recently, Milo Smee’s Bintus project was kept firmly within the confines of his own Power Vacuum label. In previous forms the UK techno veteran has certainly slung his material far and wide, from the long-running link with Andy Blake’s Dissident label through to membership in Chrome Hoof and the low-slung funk bizarreties of Kruton, but he’s been more selective with his newer productions. It was but weeks ago that we revealed that Bintus would be stepping out on Bedouin Records, the UAE label with an ever-deepening roster of diverse and challenging techno talent, and now news drifts in of another future sighting of Smee’s schooner out in foreign waters.

Shipwrec is certainly a logical home for the more electro-fied tendencies within the Bintus sound, and the Dutch label had plenty to say for itself this year with EPs from Chris Moss Acid, Dez Williams, Ekman and an album from 214 to name but a few of their fine trasmissions in 2015. With a keen eye trained on the horizon, they now set their sights on February when the Acid Shores EP will wash up with a raft of new Bintus material on board. As well as two new tracks on the A-side, there is a continuous 14 minute cut from a Bintus live set on the B-side which sounds just as strong as the studio tracks.

As ever this is gruesome, grog-swilling party music for the nastier end of the dance spectrum, but it counts amongst some of the sharpest material we’ve heard to date from Smee’s project. Test your own sea legs out with the samples on the SoundCloud player below.

Shipwrec will release Acid Shores by Bintus on February 22.

Tracklisting:

A1. Acid Shores
A2. S.E.G.
B. Bintus Live Section #1

Shipwrec on Juno