Blue 02

Next up on Whities’ new Blue series are a couple of terrific offerings. On the A side is SMX: a duo comprised of Max O’Brien and Sam Purcell, who serve up the hypnotic and emotive techno journey “Sleep”. It’s a reduced take on the early ’90s bleep techno sound that is said to have been a recorded live jam (circa 2015) and ‘explores themes of discordance and euphoria’. On the flip, Berlin based Bristolian Daniel Koehler, who has previously displayed his contorted takes on techno via labels such as Die Orakel and Diagonal – serves up the frantic rave deconstruction of “Thief” which is jam packed full of breakneck rhythms, snarling sub bass exploitations and wonky synth stabs.