Hans Bouffmyhre – Catapult
Here’s some techno from Hans Bouffmyhre in any shade you want, as long as it’s black. Free mixtape to download.
This EP makes few concessions to anything other than the beat. Each of the four tracks is a different dark hue of intensity. Out of the Stygian gloom, the track that emerges strongest is Mesmeric. This has a little light, all the better to see yourself twisting in the dark. Catapult inducts the darkness with its gradually escalating feverishness. Pulsing has less pulsing and more thundering. Secret Strobe adds a bit of bass drum for an element of dub techno. Not an EP for the techno uninitiated.
Mesmeric
Catapult EP
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Blurb: Back in April last year Hans Bouffmyhre joined the EDLX family with ‘Hypnosis’, a driving three-track EP and tool package that saw the Sleaze man get deep and loopy. Now the young Glaswegian is back with more heavy hitting slabs of his “no nonsense” type of techno. Hans Bouffmyhre, real name Stephen Gorrie, is definitely one of the harder working twenty-somethings in the scene today. On ‘Catapult’ Gorrie plays to his strengths, turning in four blends of tension-building techno crafted with all the poise and subtleties we’ve come to expect from him. “Catapult” is the EP’s teasing opener before Gorrie plunges ever further into the aching, growling belly of the beast. “Mesmeric” is as it’s name suggests, heady hypnotism in it’s wildest form. “Pulsing” slams ‘Catapult’ into sweaty peak time with pistons and alarm bells, leaving “Secret Strobe” to keep this dystopic party marching well past dawn. We said ‘Hypnosis’ was dark; ‘Catapult’ then is verging on evil.
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