Young and uncompromising Dutch techno artist OGUZ serves up two heavy cuts on NowNow, while Myler and label head Lee Ann Roberts add superb remixes.
OGUZ is known for his intense sets of high energy and creative electronic sounds. Ever since his first brush with rave, the 23-year-old has loved the thrill of dancing nonstop until the morning hours and always captures that in his music. Only six months after starting to produce he dropped his first tunes and now he is taking his larger-than-life techno to clubs all over Europe.
Opener 'Disgust & Abuse' has pumping techno kicks piled up on top of each other as they race forwards beneath industrial synths and vocals full of contempt. It's high octane but high class and will blow up clubs of any size, especially once the wonky acid line arrives. The all-consuming 'Love Me Forever' is pure techno pressure with rumbling drums and bass coming on like a tsunami as searching synths and ethereal vocals add emotive and hypnotic details.
South African-born, Amsterdam-based Lee Ann Roberts is on a roll right now: she's topped the Beatport Hard Techno chart and landed on labels like Octopus Warehouse Series as well as her own NowNow Records with fans including Charlotte de Witte and Ken Ishii. Her remix of ‘Disgust & Abuse’ is powered by earth-shattering kicks, with a synth blizzard up top and scintillating hi-hats all adding tension to this most explosive track.
Next remixer Myler is an Irish artist who has established himself on the techno scene over the last decade with big EPs on the likes of Mindcut, Pennyroyal and Emetic. His raw and unrelenting version of ‘Love Me Forever’ has stomping drums and white knuckle synths run through with bleeping machine sounds and a dark sense of dystopian energy. Last of all is a bonus remix from OGUZ where he flips Cardi B's rap classic 'WAP' into a barrel-chested techno roller complete with the original's sleazy bars.
This is a heavyweight EP of fresh and forceful techno.
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