“Metaphi’s ‘Overhill’ is an epic collision of malfunction and melody. Imagine yourself riding a robotic dragon to a swaying drumbeat, while the volcano of bass shoots fireballs all around you. Close your eyes, open your ears, and it will all become clear. Layering and delaying synths billow in the background, Pong-era vintage TV game bleeps bounce around at random, and the bass tones make like a landslide. Try to visualize the machine that could have created that dragon and the clinical clicks that resonated through the factory as it was being assembled, and you are at ‘Now Then Boris’ by The Hizatron, armed with another home-wrecking sub-bass swell on loan from Mr Oizo to contrast it’s skinny tick-tock beats and excited display of phased bleeps. Eleven Tigers’ ‘Stood Up’ is an eight-minute shuffled technoid garage crossover, which sounds like it could be the theme tune to the Russian X-files. An irresistable rushing 2-step rhythm sets the pace, YMO-esque keyboards stab, bassline bumps like colliding planets, and a reedy synth melody reminds us that the truth is out there. Finally, the man like Taylor comes with ‘Globular’. The crisp percussion and cloud like synths conjure an image of a thousand flowers blossoming in slow motion at once, while the following 4/4 kick drum stamps them right back down into the dirt. Like Lone tackling minimal click-house while stumbling backwards over Paul Hardcastle, Taylor’s off-balance tech-funk will have the dancefloor in knots”

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