Pleistocene Future Vinyl & CDs

Review: A Pleistocene Future may be one in which we regress to an epoch that begun almost 2.58 million years ago, but that doesn't deter the eponymous label from imagining such throwbacks as advantageous, nor from continuing to hook up mad amphibious techno jawns from producer duo Dyanmic Forces. Made up of two Brunos, Di Berardino and Ruggieri, Dynamic Forces make their Pleistocene debut here, springboarding off of four similarly rugged 2024 EPs for a fifth, wet and wriggling new four-tracker. The show-stealers on this one are 'Resolve' and 'Holding Out', both flipside aerators that wield an effortless sonic blend, adding squeezings of bandpassed bruxism, niggling arp goodness and a dash of techno industrial complexity.

Review: Some urgent, foreboding and breathlessly energetic techno here, as Greek producer Thanos Hana makes his first appearance on DJ Maarten Lammers' Pleistoscene Future imprint. There's a lot of swagger to be found on opener 'Het Hoog', where creepy loops and mind-mangling electronics rise above a fiendishly weighty techno groove, while 'Ton Zelf' is a more bass-heavy affair in which nagging melodic motifs strut atop a slamming techno groove. Over on side B, Hana wraps raw and nasty electronic motifs around a jacking techno groove ('Version Seven'), before dousing densely layered beats and bass in trippy textures and hypnotic loops on 'The Drums'.