Live From Concrete Island is the debut album from Brighton based producer Stephen Maskell, aka The Nags Head. Taking material from the last four years, he s created a head-spinning tapestry of melodic techno and crushed cityscapes. Like Echospace, Maskells destroyed visions nail the feeling of being a stranger in a strange land. For the city s lolloping, dubby percussion we reach deep into its guts, pulling out a squiggly bricolage of pistons, pool balls, window frames, jets of steam. In turns rasping and narcotic, Concrete Island s beatless sections are akin to the crunching menace of early Clark, or Murcofs cosmic space treatments. An occasional shimmer guitar pop gem emerges from the rubble.