Mod Wheel, The - Spiritcatcher

The title track is an infectious builder that plods (in all the right ways), it sort of holds you trance-like and won't let go until the DJ brings the next track in with a massive thump. There's a real sense of nature and malvolent forces as the title is spookily whispered, whilst a soft but demented boomerang of a hoover noise whirls up a storm and then the drums and woodblocks creep in and build and up and up; surging and driving like a an elemental power.
My first experience of this monstrous sonic force was on Carl Cox's Fact 2 comp, where he really does utilise it to devestating effect. Later I came across it on an old Voodoo hours show that Steve Shiels used to host in Liverpool many moons ago - again it was used to whip up a storm before a thunderbolt of Techno cracked the airwaves open.
In a way this track could almost be the sound of what Deep Dish first envisioned for their Yoshitoshi imprint - epic, prog, tech - whatever you want to call it - house. But Middleton does it with such class and bravura that it's elevated to a status that transcends genres and is quite simply perfection (of sorts).
Heady stuff indeed and well worth seeking out.