shadowlands rvw - boomkat
April 10th, 2006
shocking debut here, already hammered by the likes of Berlin’s Hardwax crew and touted by a ruck of producers who’ve been running this on white label as quite possibly the Techno discovery of the year. But, of course, there’s always more to these debut’s then meets the eye because Isomer Transition is actually the work of a well known producer who wishes to remain anonymous..at least for the moment. All that you need to know is that “Shadowlands” is just one of the most perversely heavy, dub-infused techno twelves we’ve heard in an age, dense with a weighty low-end undercarriage and incredibly spacious layers of percussion that seem to come from a producer able enough to unearth the meeting point between the work of Surgeon, Basic Channel and Monolake and do so without ever sounding overly familiar. A Sick twelve…
