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Having lurked around murky corners of the grubby industrial techno realm for the past year or so, Pavel Milyakov builds on his rapidly swelling discography with this transmission for Public System. It s the second release on the label following a strong opening salvo from DJ Spider and Greypeople, and this 12- offers up further forthright club-wreckers that balance taut functionality with production flair. Opening cut -Strainn- delivers bludgeoning electro from the netherworld, which Ekman then dutifully reworks with an added eerie tension. There are edgy arpeggios aplenty on -Trance T- and warmer tones in -Augusts 13-, rounding out an essential slab of serious techno tackle.