RAN - Gelassenheit 2 (EP) Chip Wickham This gritty 12-inch slab from

This gritty 12-inch slab from Foamy on Magic Toast delivers heavyweight 100BPM tech-slugs and breakcore-curious lullabies

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This release expertly fuses skittering drum programming with precision-tooled low-end pressure

RAN - Gelassenheit 2 (EP) Chip Wickham This gritty 12-inch slab fromThe name Ran is a new one to us and seemingly remains, for now at least, cloaked in secrecy, but when we see their influences range from Loefah, Photek and Carrier to Source Direct, Regis and Mika Vainio, we were instantly hooked. To this new EP on Gelassenheit, then, which speaks to a producer with a rough and tough analogue sound and love of bass driven techno. 'Violence' is gritty and heavy as it pounds out a groove with eerie pads in the distance,