Invincible East CD

L.I.E.S man in Taipei, Tzusing, has been serving up EPs of gravelly electronics and skewed techno missives for the best part of four years. Happily, the Malaysian producer has now set his sights on the full-length format, delivering a debut album that mixes his usual metallic percussion hits, mind-altering modular electronics and bleak sonic textures with mutilated versions of the humid, exotic instrumentation associated with his country of birth. It's an arresting and unusual blend that makes for gripping listening, with highlights including Far Eastern mutant electro workout "Torque's Pulsation", the Cabaret Voltaire-goes-to-Jakarta flex of "King of Hosts" and the nightmarish techno bounce of clanging closer "Category III".