SHAPEDNOISE: Until Human Voices Wake Us; Vinyl LP (2013)

Berlin-based Italian producer Shapednoise brings here six tracks of malefic, distorted techno. ‘Until Human Voices Wake Us’ is the label’s first release brokered specifically for vinyl – following their LP reissues of MCMXCI’s ‘Skogen, Flickan Och Flaskan’, and Wanda Group’s ‘P*ss Fell Out Like Sunlight’ – and fits perfectly with their most extreme aesthetics. Consolidating his love of industrial noise, rave and hard techno, ‘Until Human Voices Wake Us’ could never really be called one or the other – it’s a grotty, primal new form that feels like it just slunk out of a bilge pipe. A-side he swerves from crushed, rheumatic rhythms to howling tunnel noise and more ecstatic bluster in the title track, while flipside is given to strobing bass pulses and tense strings, murderous roil ‘n drone and a sludgy techno deconstruction.