Bek Audio Vinyl & CDs

Review: Techno veteran Gary Beck returns to our attention with a reissue of his 2012 underground hit 'Video Siren', reminding the listener of how UK techno is done properly. Returning to his own BEK Audio imprint, the track now hears three new, impeccably chosen mixes from among Beck's favourite technoicians: Clouds, Anne and Mark Broom. A lineup made in heaven, the first of these three brings to the track their patented fright-fugs and frigid sound-frays to the fore, marring it in a boundless but no less well-balanced bed of grit-texture. Anne and Mark Broom do similarly as much, but the former artist prefers to pitch down Beck's original vocal sample work for a gender-bending, murmurative undergird, while the latter prefers instead to autopan and phase-delay said vox all around, while indulging a classic pre-drop filterpassed kick tease.