From 0-1 US Vinyl & CDs

Review: San Francisco, Bay Area and Seattle-based label From 0-1 shows us that those regions are about more than hip hop, Dirtybird-house and grunge with this new various artists collection. Operator kicks off with the dubby techno rhythms of 'Enceladus Outpost' which has freaky synths squirming about in its midst. Sone's 'Accretion' is just as heavy and stripped back, with synths peeling off the bulky drums and A Thousand Details's 'Treyarch Sentient' bring some Detroit-style synth orchestrations. It's all out intergalactic industrial warfare on U SRD's 'Not Everything You See Is Real' to shut down with a bang.

Review: There is a great sense of techno classicism to this new outing on From 0-1 by Jason Patrick. His Back Channel Communications EP draws on early pioneers like Jeff Mills to lay down sleek linear grooves that voyage non-stop through the stars as mind-melting synths and melodies peel off the beats. That is the case with the opener 'Amalgamation' while 'Conspire' does the same but in even deeper fashion with rubbery drums packed together tightly and keeping the pressure high. A JX-216 remix brings a little more texture and funk and 'Enveloped' then hunkers back down into a minimal techno landscape that has the energy of a frozen tundra in the dead of night.