Dez Williams
THE ANGEL MAKER EP
Earwiggle / EAR004
12 Inch
Starting with the melting frequencies of Underground Persistent, acid is in control. Like an Emmanuel Top and Kosmik Messenger track if they d ever collaborated, this combines swingy 808 drums and masterful Detroit strings to a searing acid-line that keeps going and going.
Switching things into more straight-ahead acid territory on A2, 'Untitledacid 6' has pretty much one intention and that's to jack hard. Perhaps one of Dez's heaviest techno tracks to date, it's a perfect snapshot of many hedonistic nights spent at The Orbit throughout his formative techno years. 'Freedom' on the flip is a dense techno workout that joins a strong looped vocal and distorted percussion to swamping sound fx, in a rough but funky way. This time an expert pad progression brings the track to an unexpected but fitting finale. Finally, and showing what a complete supremo he is where dark floor-friendly electro is concerned, Dez turns in a blistering cut of sci-fi electro with 'Courtesy Call'. We could have made a number of records with the amount of great electro tracks that Dez does, but in this case we just picked our favourite of the bunch.[info from bh]