Twerk – Humantics

This sounds way more futuristic than any house tune of the last 10 years. Or 15. I discovered this album today and it is another exhibit on how house stagnated on the 21st century. There is drama, rhythm and understanding of the dancefloor antics plus experimentation. Back then the Force Tracks/Mille Plateaux house/techno tracks were accused of being too pedantic and intellectual for what it should have been just fun, but nowadays they sit proudly watching over the later output.

Icy glitch-tech, the sound of machinery rebelling against its master. A soft menace hovers through "CCS Pressure" and the war goes full on in "Consumed." And just as you begin to believe that all the tracks have a strange, beautiful inhumanity to them ("Modern Hulk of Insecurity," in particular), along comes a slightly more emotive track, the chilly ambience of "Bluepill." A hint of funk seeps into "Defective Manufacturing," though the 4/4 takes precedence, and the funk gets even more robotic with "American Psycho." "Caustic Limitation" finally welcomes the killbots to our planet, and humanity scurries underground with "Populous," and makes its last stand in the subtle synth pads of "Exclusions." Some great stuff here.