The H - Sewer Club

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  • Montreal's Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, AKA Noir, and Francesco De Gallo, AKA Hobo Cubes, are known for experimental music that stretches sounds and song structures to their limits. (Check out De Gallo's recent album for some vivid proof.) So it follows that if they came together, they'd make, erm, techno, right? Well that's what happened on their debut for MOTOR, the dance music arm of Seattle's Debacle label. And as surprising as they are, the results are pretty pleasing. For better or worse, Sewer Club sounds like techno made by people with no experience with the genre. "Bass Und" takes a page out of the Shed book, balancing a heavy kick drum with epic floaty synths, though it's not quite as basic as that sounds. With ticking hi-hats, off-key mallets and the kick's strange habit of disappearing altogether, the track floats from one configuration to the next with little regard for DJ-friendly structuring. "Synergy" is even more dissolute: its rubbery chords and foggy synths dip in and out of earshot with the same unpredictability of its flipside. The track feels lost in its own sprawl, which isn't a bad thing by any means, but it falls short of the A-side's high-water mark.
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      A1 Bass Und B1 Synergy
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