Release : Pendle Coven - Habitual Stress EP
Artist : Pendle Coven
Album : Habitual Stress EP
Genre : Techno
Source : Web
Label : Modern Love
URL : http://www.boomkat.com
Date : 00-00-2007
Encoder : WEB
Quality : 320kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 2
Time : 11:08 min
Size : 25.51 MB
1 Habitual Stress (Original Mix) 5:05
2 Brick Tutor (Original Mix) 6:03
Pendle coven seem to confuse people. Never quite managing to settle down into
one signature sound, they've jumped from producing purist '92 style hardcore
through to abstract techno minimalism and the kind of euphoric 4/4 the kompakt
crew would be proud of. With the benefit of hindsight it all starts to make a
little more sense - and the stylistic signatures can be honed in on when looking
at the sound of the Modern Love label as a whole - this is music designed for
the floor with a BASS obsession motivating and guiding every progression, break
and change. "Habitual Stress" on the a-side here is perhaps Pendle's most
relentless club emission to date, everything about this track evokes the
darkest, most demented club space you've ever occupied, a cavernous resonance
and a squashed acid signature guiding you into the nether regions of the night
with vigour and abandon. It sounds like vintage Chicago warehouse music minced
through the contemporary sounds of Berlin, Detroit and the Hague - and it's just
absolutely crushing. "Brick Tutor" on the flip is, by contrast, a more velveteen
affair : padded kick-drums and washed-out strings align themselves around crisp
snares and a 6am vibe, the sort of track that you'd find on labels like Mojuba,
Styrax or Meanwhile, except with a filthier edge, once again exposing another
side to pendle coven's forever changing face. Killer twelve.