★★★★☆

From busy beginnings foraging away, increasingly picking itself up from the doldrums until all cylinders are feeling the heat, DJ-in-command Niels Luinenburg feeds off the clanging and shifting of his techno assembly line like he’s doing a warehouse stock take. This is before he stops skirting around ashen boundaries and starts grappling with you. Classic Detroit work from Cosmin TRG and Mike Denhert lights a fire underneath Delta Funktionen’s undertaking of clinical precision and regimental timekeeping, beats snipping and sniping with dextrous scalpel treatment. Peter van Hoesen’s “Last One at 1080,” in both sound and title, shows the dynamic of piston push and pull, flattening the factory as he does so, dispelled by the peaceful positioning of Conforce’s “When It Appeared” and Lucy’s “Wytonia” suddenly slamming the brakes on for a post-apocalypse observation.

Funktionen is attack-minded, whether coming in on the blindside or taking aim with no hesitation, and the angles he comes in from rarely travel in the same straight line while letting off various hazard signals. Redshape’s pulpy squelch “Static” leads into Area Forty One’s scare-n-sweep “CNTCT”, with no sign of the crossfader being handled like it’s in a game of ping-pong. Resisting Routine is a statement applied by a spinner with the minerals to back it up.
File under: Skudge, Sigha, Sascha Rydell