Since debuting on Bird Scarer in 2012, George Thompson AKA Black Merlin has delivered some of the most intoxicating, percussive and otherworldly electronic music around, much of it shot through with exotic South East Asian instrumentation, feverish percussion and plenty of atmospheric field recordings. He continues this invigorating approach on the Mod Ik EP, confidently strutting between seriously hallucinatory techno (the heavy and hypnotic title track), mind-mangling ambient acid (the beat-free electronic psychedelia of 'Miea'), dark and foreboding modular intensity ('PK9', whose lead lines and breathless bass are both unusual and inspired) and feverish early morning chuggers ('HL').