Ellen Allien - Magma

While hardly reaching the lofty heights of her tribute to the city of Berlin 'Standkind', Allien is still very much the top Bpitch bitch - Magma is a rolling, shuddering tech-electro minimal groove fest, hot and fluid. A bit like magma itself.
On the flip, Ellen moves over to give two electro-upstarts some room to breathe in the sweltering heat - The MFA and Modeselektor hack away, but neither of them justifies the intense hype that surrounds them, opting for either dry, over-processed funk-devoid loops (Modeselektor) or waifer-thin 90s trance (MFA).

Seek out Ellen's latest long player instead......